Thursday, April 26, 2012

Desert Park in Alice Springs

The Desert Park is in Alice Springs, and is quite a nice place to kill an hour or two. Particularly if you've reached the conclusion that the only kangaroos you're going to see will be in captivity. Hrmph.

These are the non-kangaroo pictures. They tons have more animals, mainly birds and some other types of desert sceneries, but as I generally don't give a hoot about either, I didn't bother. They had one place called the nocturnal house, in which they showed (generally dimly displayed) nocturnal animals, such as snakes and spiders and rats, etc, etc. They also have a movie of about 20 mins which shows the development of the area from millions of years ago up to now. The timing of the shows is off in relation to the given times, so be sure to arrive about ten minutes early.

All pics here.

These pics were all taken with a flash. Half the time I could barely see my subject. This one came out extremely well; it was taken on the hunch that something may be sleeping inside the trunk; I couldn't really see a thing.
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Whatcha looking at, huh? Huh?
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These little rats/kangaroos/wallabies/whodafuckknows were running around chasing each other when they weren't eating.
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Some of you will soon see one of these guys on a postcard.
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Some bird with a funny hairdo.
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They sell some mighty fine honey cakes in the cafe.
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Some of you will know that I pop these eucalyptus-flavored fresh breath mints like crazy. I thought it would be a nice gesture to bring some of them home to visit the old country. Yes, them's eucalyptuses in the background.
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