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We passed an alpaca farm on the way to O'Reilly's.
The gift shop sold very soft clothes made out of their
wool, but the merchandise was pricey.
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We never saw a koala in the wild. Our only captivity
pictures were taken at David Fleay's Wildlife Park in
Surfers Paradise.
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Humpback whales were easy to see in Hervey Bay. We
arrived just at the tail end of the season. Many of the
whales had babies like this one, some only weeks old.
(Did you remember that whales are mammals?)
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Apart from the echidna, the duckbilled platypus is
the only other mammal that lays eggs. It's about 2 feet
long, and lives in quiet streams with several other
platypuses (platypi?) diving for food at the bottom.
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What a surprise to see flying foxes (large bats)
during the daytime in downtown Sydney! They were seasonal
visitors to the botanical gardens, and they happened to
be causing damage to the trees they were roosting in.
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