Back to the AirBnB. I put the address into Maps and off we go. Seems we pass it, but we just saw a dirt road where it had said to turn. Hmmmmmm..... We turn around and go back, turning down the dirt road. This is what I see in front of me
And about a half a dozen buildings that all looked like this
Yea, there's no house here that I can see. We get to the end, turn the car around and standing now in the middle of the road is a lumberjack-looking sort of a man. Did I say he was in the middle of the road and we wouldn't be able to get around him? We stop and he asks where we are going. "To an AirBnB," Bruce says. To my relief, or maybe I should say my horror, he says we're at the right place. Oh, my, not only is there junk filling every building, there are about a dozen various vehicles in state of disrepair. Then there was also the 10 dogs barking hysterically at us. Still, I don't see a possibility of a place where I have any intention of laying my head that night!
However, sigh, we were in a part of Australia that Bruce had looked and looked and there were very few choices of places. And there is no, I think I'll go to the next hotel. We were stuck........with the junk...........the broken down vehicles.........the 10 dogs............the cows..........the emu...........the shooks (chickens).............the roosters..............and the kangaroos. Wait! What? 2 kangaroos live here too!
This is the big guy that could leave anytime he wants, but doesn't. Then there's this little guy who's 6 months old. He gets brought in every night to sleep in a bag in a laundry basket.
And I got to feed him! Wow! Made it all worthwhile!
Our host Rob was not a scary kind of a guy after all. He was a big ole teddy bear who drove us across the street to see lots of kangaroos in the wild. Here was the biggest one! Hard to tell in this pic, but he was huuuuuge!
We saw many just hopping around the field and crossing the roads in front of us. It was actually pretty exciting for this city girl. (As promised, a wallaby is really small in comparison. They are also loners whereas you will always see kangaroos in families. That's the extent of my wallaby vs kangaroo knowledge)
Rob then took us to Melba Gully where the glowworms come out at night. Unfortunately, it was almost a full moon, so they don't shine as bright and there's no good way to get a picture of them, but what we saw was pretty amazing. You look back among the trees and their lights shine out to you.
Our room was quite nice with everything we needed. Then we heard an alarm at 5:00 AM that kept making its incessant noise without stop and with no way to put it on snooze............ Oh, yea, it was the roosters!
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