The two-lane road north from
Cairns to Port Douglas winds 50 km (31 mi) up the coast past sugar cane fields and beach resorts, and through small towns and tropical rainforest. We passed a large group of wallabies (known as a mob) grazing in a large pasture along the road. I parked next to a lawn bowling complex and, camera
in hand, walked around the corner of the building and began taking pictures. A man
came out of the building and told us to come inside, but to stay
behind the fence because "wallabies can be aggressive if you get too close." Inside the open-air facility, twenty people were bowling in a tournament. One of the
women bowlers said that a few weeks earlier, a man taking photographs in the pasture was attacked by a male wallaby.
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| Agile wallabies |
