{"id":141,"date":"2008-03-03T14:19:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T13:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2008-03-03T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T13:19:49","slug":"healesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2008\/healesville","title":{"rendered":"Healesville"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, February 23, Ken (one of my business partners) took me on a drive out to Healesville, named after one of the first Governors of Australia, where tourism and the Healesville Sanctuary<\/a> have replaced logging as the main revenue generators.\u00c2\u00a0 Below are pictures from that outing.\u00c2\u00a0 The platypus is missing, as is the wombat and the Tasmanian devil – for different reasons.\u00c2\u00a0 The platypussary is too dark for pictures, but that’s a fair trade-off for getting to see these odd creatures putting on a show.\u00c2\u00a0 The wombat (Florence) lay curled up, sleeping in the straw, looking like a stack of pelts as much as anything.\u00c2\u00a0 The Tasmanian devil, acting counter to its name, had withdrawn and was neither to be seen nor its shrieks to be heard.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Melbourne
\nThis is still Melbourne CBD (Central Business District).\u00c2\u00a0 The older building used to be the stock exchange, if I remember correctly, and now houses the banking museum; the building behind it is the new ANZ bank, full of visual nods to the original, but first and foremost bigger.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Yarra
\nWe stopped at the Yering Farm winery<\/a> in Yarra valley for a\u00c2\u00a0brief tasting.\u00c2\u00a0 Ken preferred the Merlot, I the Pinot Noir.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"parakeets\"
\nParakeets, I think.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Brown
\nBrown falcon, I think.\u00c2\u00a0 All the raptors were part of the “Birds of Prey” show.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Barn
\nBarn owl.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Wedge-tailed
\nThe wedge-tailed eagle, Australia’s largest bird of prey.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Osprey\"
\nThe osprey emerging from the water after an unsuccessful dive for a (dead) fish.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Foxes
\nThe flying foxes decided they’d rather sleep.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Black-winged
\nBlack-winged stilt.<\/p>\n

\"Koala\"
\nThe ineffable ennui<\/em> of the Koala.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Koala
\nThe ineffable\u00c2\u00a0smugness of the Koala.<\/p>\n

\"Koalas
\nThe ineffable nose of the Koala.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Grey
\nSuddenly one realizes that the oddly formed animals of this continent might inspire sci-fi battle machines.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Grey
\nLook ma, no feet!<\/p>\n

\"Rock
\nThe endangered rock wallaby.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Duck!\"
\nThe not so endangered duck.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Echidnae\"
\nThe echidna parade.\u00c2\u00a0 Snouty pincushions on feet.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if they know their ‘do\u00c2\u00a0went out of style in the early nineties?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"baby
\nBaby brolga (of the crane family).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Back in the city we had pizza on at Il Gambero at Lygon street.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, pizza two days in a row, but I enjoyed it both times.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m easily pleased.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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On Saturday, February 23, Ken (one of my business partners) took me on a drive out to Healesville, named after one of the first Governors of Australia, where tourism and the Healesville Sanctuary have replaced logging as the main revenue generators.\u00c2\u00a0 Below are pictures from that outing.\u00c2\u00a0 The platypus is missing, as is the wombat and the Tasmanian devil – for different reasons.\u00c2\u00a0 The platypussary is too dark for pictures, but that’s a fair trade-off for getting to see these odd creatures putting on a show.\u00c2\u00a0 The wombat (Florence) lay curled up, sleeping in the straw, looking like a stack of pelts as much as anything.\u00c2\u00a0 The Tasmanian devil, acting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}