Day 226: Skippy

I was so happy about having my Camera to use again that I took a bit of a drive down to Tharwa via Point Hut Crossing this afternoon in the hope of taking a decent photo. I stopped off for a look around at the Tharwa bridge and as I was heading back to the road from the little car park at the bridge I spotted these 3 and pulled over for a few happy snaps.

They were only about 10 meters away and the big one looking directly at me was huge. I reckon he would have been at least 6 feet tall when standing up, probably even taller. His eyes never left me the whole time I was there taking photos either.

The picture is a little grainy because the light wasn't great, it was a little after 5:30 when I took this photo and the sun was well on its way behind the hills. Still better than what it would have looked like on the old Canon I was using until I got the Nikon and I won't even mention the iPhone...

Day 70: A Whole Lot Of Hot Air

Today we all went to the lawns of Old Parliament House to see the balloons, this involved getting up far too early for a Saturday morning. Even though we were up early, we missed most of the balloons and by the time we arrived there were only 4 balloons still inflated.

These two were by far the most interesting.

I like this photo above the plethora of others I took today for a number of reasons:
1. I liked the contrast of the orange and brown kangaroos against the cloudless blue sky
2. About 5 minutes before this photo the kangaroos were facing each other looking like they were having a fight, in this photo it amused me to think they were 'making up' after their little tiff.
3. From this angle it looks like the kangaroos are mid way through doing strange basket shaped poops.

I think next time we'll have to get up even earlier and show up before the sun rises so we can see more than 4 balloons.