The Kangaroo Road?

The road the lady at the jewelry store recommended was only 6 minutes away on Yalwal Road. She was adamant we would see the wildlife we searched for.

We started our drive down the road and it took all but 2 minutes before WE SAW KANGAROOS!!!

We were on a 2 lane road that was clearly next to people's farms. At first we passed by them so Erik turned around and we pulled off on the side of the road and literally watched them for about an hour.

Erik had his binoculars on and I had the cameras going. Videos. Photos. More videos. More photos. On and on.

There was a mama and her joey. He jumped out of her pouch and eventually jumped back in. I got him on video jumping back in! If I can't post it here, it'll definitely be posted to FB later. There was this gigantic kangaroo when we first showed up. Then another as we were leaving. There were these two kangaroos that were play fighting. OMG cutest thing ever to see them all! Their hops were adorable!!!

Then on the other side of the street, the cows must've been allowed out to their pasture because they came running over to chase the kangaroos away. The kangaroos hopped off.

Enjoy the tons of photos and videos and know I have plenty more!

As we were stopped, this nice guy stopped his truck to ask if we were okay. We said we were just watching the kangaroo. Erik told him we weren't from around here, if he couldn't tell. The dude shook his head like he couldn't believe we would want to see the kangaroo. Then he said to be careful so that we didn't get hit by anyone.

Then we took off to find the RV park that I saw earlier.

It was about a half hour away. We saw plenty of kangaroo on the way there.

When we first arrived to the RV park, this guy was walking down the road and this HUGE kangaroo comes flying down the road right next to him. He was so quick I couldn't get the camera going that fast. We were very close to him..

Then.. Erik pulls into the RV park and parks so that he can go to the front office. He comes back and tells me the front office is closed. He said the number to reach after hours isn't going to the right place.

I'm now sitting in the front seat thinking, "boy, if only I had booked it earlier". Do I say that to him? No. I know he doesn't feel well. I am now stressed out because it took a long time trying to find this place. He wanted something close to the water and best of luck trying to find that.

We opted for another rest stop because at least we know we can stay there. It's not on the water. Not even close.

It was getting pretty dark out and that is how we noticed our lights on the RV suck. You can't see more than 20-30 feet in front of you without brights and you can't very well drive around with brights on everywhere.

We finally made it to the rest stop. It's cute and further off the road than last night. Our RV battery seems to be doing okay to charge things.

Erik had chocolate chip cookies and milk for dinner. I had a whole container of strawberries. I'm seeing a trend here that we suck at making food for ourselves, even though we have the materials to make good meals. Tomorrow we will eat better.

For now we lay here. Erik coughs and looks at his phone while I take 2 hours to type up posts about our day. What a great day it was. I love whales.Leer más