This is a selection of my
favorite photographs mostly of my own hand raised "babes" but also some
miscellaneous photographs of which I'm rather fond. (Click
on the images to see the full size photo.)
 Jamaica (on the left) and Mippet. These two boys were both
released at the end of last season (February 1997). They are still living on my property
and come in for supplementary feeding every night.
 Mippet - one of my favourite boys -
he has a tremendous personality and when he was little he used to ensure that his feed box
was never empty by banging on the sides of it when it was getting a little low. The two
roos in the background are Linus and Blossom. Both have joeys this year.
 These two photographs were taken on my driveway not 20 feet from
the front door. Both these kangaroos are male and both are wild. They were both over 5
feet tall standing erect, and were fighting over the favours of a couple of my released
girls who had taken refuge close to the house.
 The strength of these animals is
quite amazing and they can and do inflict serious injuries on each other and humans. I
have no idea who won this particular battle because it went on for about half an hour and
they had moved down into the paddock by that time.
 Pete
(standing) actually deserves a page of his own. He was found hanging upside down in a
barbed wire fence where he had been for at least 12 hours. He was cut down and when he
hadn't moved the next day the property owners called Wildcare. By the time I got there he
had crawled into a very large thicket of blackberry bush. I managed to retrieve him and
took him home. He had barbed wire cuts on both feet through to the bone, the cuts were fly
blown, circulation to his feet had all but stopped and he was in shock and dehydrated.
After stabilising him and getting the circulation going again, I took him to the vet. and
about three weeks later he had ligament repair surgery to his feet. For another four weeks
both feet were in plaster. He made a full recovery and was successfully released. The last
time I saw him around April 1997, he had grown substantially, still remembered me and was
in excellent health. Unfortunately poor little Lisa (in the pouch) wasn't so lucky, she
too was caught in a barbed wire fence but had to be put down because the bones in her foot
had become badly infected and had disintegrated.
I love this photograph. If you
click it you will see a young released kangaroo getting his early morning exercise, with
another roo looking on sedately. As you can see it was a cold, frosty morning but it
didn't dampen his spirits in the slightest. He looks just like the kangaroo on the Qantas
logo.
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