Warrnambool

We spent sometime at Warrnambool which is a coastal regional town.
Probably the highlight was coming across a Macaw 🦜 that one of the locals had as a pet and understanding more about the habits of these magnificent birds.
As you might imagine they require an extraordinary amount of time and care for them to be happy and healthy as a pet.

The name "Warrnambool" originated from Mount Warrnambool, a scoria cone volcano 25 kilometres northeast of the town. Warrnambool (or Warrnoobul) was the title of both the volcano and the clan of Aboriginal Australian people who lived there. In the local language, the prefix Warnn- designated home or hut, while the meaning of the suffix -ambool is now unknown. William Fowler Pickering, the colonial government surveyor who in 1845 was tasked with the initial planning of the township, chose to name the town Warrnambool. The traditional Indigenous owners of the land today are the Dhauwurd Wurrung people, also known as the Gunditjmara.Read more