DAY 8 - CURRUMBIN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, BROADBEACH WITH COUSINS
Mama was checking her messages so Jun decided to help write some things. So if you see "Jun wrote", that means they were contributed by him. Tong had raisin toast and smoked salmon for breakfast.
Jun wrote: Gor Gor cut bread.
CURRUMBIN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
Yes everyone was in the picture!
Went into a cave lit up by fairy lights...second last day of fun in Australia
LOL I could not for the life of me remember what animal I was trying to capture in this photo
Well, the thing that I was trying to photograph was this small mouse at the top right corner. I did like how the staff members decorated the tanks with Christmas things!
Tree lizard on the log...the main point was to take a photo of the baubles
Jun wrote: Jie Jie getting strangled
Jie was wearing a Slytherin t-shirt
The clownish Mei
Jun wrote: Giant igunna
He went to gatecrash JJ's photo
Jie wore a Christmas themed shirt
Went into this enclosure and saw this really pretty and colourful bird
Jun wrote: Do you see the bird?
Mei liked Biaoshen very much and held her hands quite a bit when we were exploring the nature reserve. Later on, Mei said she really like JJ and Jayron too and wished she could play more with them.
Jie said I was stalking Grand Uncle Brian and Tong
The bosom buddies
Not a real crocodile. We were merely at the playground
The kids had a blast at the zip line
Jun wrote: Jayron looks scared
Jun wrote: Zipline!!!
Mei had a lot of fun on this. She told us not to push her but Gor obviously turned a deaf ear to her instructions.
Woooooo
Everyone had a go
Biaoshen said that JJ and Jayron no longer liked to wear matching tees but she still made them wear similar colours haha
Perfect shot
Well Papa wanted to have fun too! The sign said it was for kids, and we were a little concerned that he might cause it to snap for good
But haha off he went!
The small ones played at the playground next to the stage
The performers actually told the kids that they had these baby dinosaurs as they found some unhatched ones, very fortunately, and managed to hatch them. Gosh!
Jun and Mei were taken in by their words and really thought they were speaking the truth!
Mei even went up to pet it and take a photo. The creature could blink its eyes and Mei said its skin felt like scales.
Just hanging out together
The birds were a menace. One ibis even nipped a fry off somebody's plate which had been left on the bench! One even hopped onto a table to steal nuggets!
Saw a plane leaving a trail in the sky
Trying to dig for fossils
Woah what a gigantic dinosaur
Mysterious landscape
Ancestor of the gecko
Papa and Mama in matching wear
Say hello to the pelican. The Australians were very careful about adding animals to the reserves, apparently, they rescued animals and usually returned them to the wild and they had to get permission from the government to keep them captive.
So...there are very few creatures in each enclosure, mostly one usually, so Papa said that was why it was called "xxx wallaby", "yyy Tasmania Devil" in the singular as there was really just one of the species in each enclosure. HA
Owl
The black cockatoo - it could tell when rain was on the way...amazing! I told Tong that we should rear a black cockatoo!
The person sitting next to Tong got chosen to hold up her arm to let the cockatoo land!
Massive falcon - the apex predator. Its wingspan could be as long as 2.1m!
They were thought to be the culprit for killing livestock in the past and were hunted down fiercely. Later on, people learnt that they fed mainly on road kill, or weak or sick livestock and mostly on feral foxes and rabbits so they were really useful in keeping the delicate balance of the ecosystem...
CAPYBARA...Mama asked why they were so fair. ANG MOH capybaras?
Tree kangaroo
Poetic shot of Jie against the stream of ray filtering through the dense foliage
And her photo buddy : )
With lush vegetation and bubbling waterfall
Time for lunch - Mei was asleep as usual. Jie said it was her modus operandi to be asleep during meal times...
Jun wrote: FOOD!!!
NOTE: Jun was so excited to help Mummy blog so everything from this point onwards in blue text was done by the adorable JUN.
Mama's comments in blue
One of the bird's feet is hidden.
waterfall
This bird's leg is actually gone
Guess what this animal is... it is a red panda! So cute
Mummy teased Granduncle Brian by saying "Uncle Brian, meet Freddy. Freddy, meet Uncle Brian." Mum told Beo Gor Po that these were ang moh birds, hence Granduncle Brian's friends.
Jie wanted a photo with this bird as its name was Freddy.
And his brother bird was called George.
So the two birds were George and Freddy like the twins in Harry Potter!
Papa's game username was Lost as he felt really lost during that first online game he played when he was a young child. We often joked about how Mama must be Found them so together we were Lost & Found. ha poor Papa, still lost after 43 years
Papa said the claws of the birds were sharp and dug into his skin, creating little holes
Somehow the little ones found themselves working together on their 3-hole cistern system.
took a photo at the largest and the second hole
they said it was a success when the water came in and did not destroy the holes
Sneak attack! They went to the one dug by the three bigger ones and Jun even dumped the surrounding sand into the hole in an evil attempt to destroy their effort right before leaving the beach
Papa went for a run
We were supposed to take the 230 flight but it was delayed by 3 hours. Mama took the opportunity to blog, My laptop had totally crashed last night so I needed to take it back to work tomorrow for the IT staff to resurrect it! Mama thought that some of Jun's comments were rather cute so perhaps Jun might be helping to blog more often. We agreed that he would use blue so it was easy to tell who was talking.
Poor Mei was having a fever but we had packed the medicine away in the checked in luggage. We prayed for a smooth flight and that Mei would feel better...
And all of us would be all ready for another Tay Family adventure in Malaysia on Friday!
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