We Did It!!!

Saturday.

We got up at 4:00am to start a drive to a National Park and see the rain forest all in the hopes that while driving on a 4-wheel road, we would see some Roos. Gary had seen one when with some friends at work going to the same place, but when they turned around to get photos - just got the tail. So we knew they were about - and that they came out at dawn and dusk - unfortunately dawn is 4:00am and we weren't about to get up at 2:00am to hit that, so we were thinking that any Roos we found would be gravy on our trip for the day.

We were down in a meadow and I screamed: "Roos!". We stopped the car some ways away from them and we all got photos - Gary having to find his camera buried in his backpack since he was convinced we would not see any.

They aren't great since they are using my telephoto - but I can check that off my life's list of things to do "See Roos In The Wild" ... done.

This was another one that was actually with 2 others and I screamed "Kangaroo" 3 times before Gary stopped (I was the spotter) so we were rather close. The Roos were on Gary and my Fathers side of the car so I only caught this one shooting out Gary's window.

We then arrived at the park and encountered a flock of parrots. A family had been having breakfast (and I believe feeding them) and there were at least 50 very cheeky birds! Hoping to find something or to catch our attention, they started alighting on us:

Probably one of my favorite photos of my Father of all time:

Unfortunately the girls were not looking so dignified - the birds liked our heads the best, and seriously - who looks good with a parrot on their head?

Got to the rain forest, and two waterfalls which I have been to and blogged about before so I won't bore you with more photos, but to show the scale of the trees and their fins here is Gary posing for me:

All in all it was a good day, an exhausting day, and an exhilarating day since we accomplished all we set out to do. When Gary and I were pining for more Roo sightings, my mother scolded us that we were just being greedy - which, of course, we were!