Camping at Deep Creek National Park
Trip Start
Apr 20, 2008
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Trip End
Ongoing
Deep Creek National Park,
Australia
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Deep Creek was great with loads of wildlife and the site we were camping in was surrounded by loads of Eucalyptus trees and was really lovely. We were the only people in the whole campsite so it was very peaceful. Some of the wildlife was more mischievous than others. One morning we were sitting down for a nice omelette for breakfast, enjoying the peace and quiet and admiring a row of kookaburras, which had lined up on a nearbye tree to watch us eat. All was well until the next thing we knew and to our great surprise one of the kookaburras flew down on a great diving swoop and attempted to grab the food off our plates! We spent the rest of our breakfast in a much less relaxing, but much more amusing way, fending off dive bombing feathery theives! There were also a lot of kangaroos around. It was lovely, very early one morning we woke up to hear a snuffling sound outside our tent, followed by a peculiar heavy thumping sound on the ground, followed by a slighty lighter one. In our sleepy state we worked out it was kangaroos,and must have been a mother and a joey. It was fantastic listening to them hopping round our tent!
