Caravan/Kangaroo

The interior of our caravan.

Yesterday was the first day with our new caravan (as seen in the picture) and it worked pretty well during our 6 hour drive from Adilaide to Mount Gambier, (named after the admiral of the first Australian navy) where we stayed to sleep.  Today was a 5 hour drive from Mount Gambier to Warrnambool, a city west of Melbourne.  This picture is of the interior of the caravan.  The little "shelf" in the back is a bed where my brother and I sleep.  I am sitting on a bed not seen in the picture.  There is a kitchen to my left, and a bathroom to my right.  My mother and brother are photobombing the picture.  Don't mind them!  Gotta practice violin when you can, brother!

Kangaroos are the six largest species of macropods.

Today, we also saw kangaroos up close at the Tower Hill Conservation Reserve.  Most people had left the Reserve and it was almost dusk, the Kangaroos' favorite time to graze.  (Hey, this would save us time mowing at home in Exeter!). One kangaroo had a Joey.  Since we got to see them so close up, I noticed their vivid facial features.  This is a picture of one of the kangaroos.  By the way, all wallabies and kangaroos are macropods, meaning they have big feet.  They are also marsupials, meaning they carry their young in a pouch.  Wallabies and kangaroos are native only to Australia, and New Guinea.

Tomorrow we will go to a maritime museum and then see some huge stone formations in the ocean by Princeton, called the Twelve Aposltes.