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Showing posts with label Western Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Western Australia. Show all posts

20 March 2004

Trip to Western Australia

We had such an awesome time in Western Australia, exploring Rottnest Island and south of Perth.  We went to Australia to "sign in" as part of our process for emigration there after being accepted on a skills visa.  It was a great opportunity to start to get to know what would become our new home.
 
 

Highlights

  • Camping at Rottnest Island and exploring the island on bicycles
  • First experience of geo caching - depositing Macavity the Cat
  • Shannon National Park - camping in a cosy hut, forest walks, buying supplies from a little shop
  • Lunch at Margarrette's River and a great river walk
  • Seeing a buff-banded rail in the Mangrove Swamps
  • Towering trees at Shannon National Park (Australia)
  • The views from King's Park
  • Seeing my first Kookaboro
  • Seeing my first Kangaroo
  • 48 new bird species including beautiful parakeets











New birds seen


King's Park - Perth
  • Australian Wood duck
  • Magpie-lark
  • Rainbow Lorikeet
  • Yellow Wattlebird


Mangrove Park
  • Grey fantail
  • White-faced heron
  • New Holland Honeyeater
  • Australian White ibis
  • Buff-banded rail
  • Willie wagtail
  • Silvereye


Rotnest Island
  • Rainbow bee-eater
  • Spotted Turtle Dove
  • Pacific Black duck
  • Silver gull
  • Singing Honeyeater
  • Sacred Kingfisher
  • Common pheasant
  • Banded lapwing
  • Banded Stilt
  • Redcapped plover
  • Australian raven
  • Redcapped Robin
  • Australian shelduck
  • Welcome swallow
  • Grey teal
  • Bridled tern
  • Crested tern


Shannon Forest Reserve
  • Whitebrowed babbler
  • Long billed black cockatoo
  • Grey Currawong
  • Restless flycatcher
  • Common bronzewing
  • Crested shrike-tit
  • Scarlet Robin
  • Yellow rumped thornbill
  • Grey shrike-thrush
  • Dusky Woodswallow
  • Australian ringneck


Other
  • Australian magpie
  • Western Rosella
  • Little Pied Cormorant
  • Australasian Grebe
  • Strawnecked Ibis
  • Laughing Kookaburra
  • Australina pelican
  • Black Swan
  • Grey butcherbird
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