After a restful night at the Wallaby, we headed north to the mining town of Mareeba where we visited a park area called Granite Gorge. We went on a hike through what is very appropriately described as, yes, a granite gorge -- granite boulders everywhere! It was somewhat strenuous clambering from one rock to the next, but well worth the views. And at the end we visited their "Rock Wallaby Sanctuary" which is basically an area where they have fed Rock Wallabies to the point that they have become tame. We have very mixed feelings about this sort of wild animal-human interaction, but hey, it was probably our only chance to see a live wallaby and it seemed that the damage was already done, so we fed a Rock Wallaby.
It was cool, but not as cool as seeing the platypus in the wild.
After a restful night at the Wallaby, we headed north to the mining town of Mareeba where we visited a park area called Granite Gorge. We went on a hike through what is very appropriately described as, yes, a granite gorge -- granite boulders everywhere! It was somewhat strenuous clambering from one rock to the next, but well worth the views. And at the end we visited their "Rock Wallaby Sanctuary" which is basically an area where they have fed Rock Wallabies to the point that they have become tame. We have very mixed feelings about this sort of wild animal-human interaction, but hey, it was probably our only chance to see a live wallaby and it seemed that the damage was already done, so we fed a Rock Wallaby.
It was cool, but not as cool as seeing the platypus in the wild.
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