{"id":14056,"date":"2018-10-16T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T10:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/?p=14056"},"modified":"2018-10-26T02:12:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T02:12:15","slug":"takarakka-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/?p=14056","title":{"rendered":"takarakka bush."},"content":{"rendered":"

we went for a long bush walk through carnarvon gorge today, a really long one. and i must admit, i’m unsure which one i liked better: the takarakka bush retreat or the walk through carnarvon gorge. both were great and are highly recommended.<\/p>\n

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we had been told that the vegetation in carnarvon gorge is similar to what australia would have looked like when banjo and matilda<\/a> were around.<\/p>\n

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the guys didn’t have a bad place, we got to given them that.<\/p>\n

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the art gallery with the amazing stencil paintings is towards the end of the middle gorge, and as far as we walked today. it’s not a difficult walk on well prepared tracks, with a few shallow creek crossings strewn in.<\/p>\n

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it’s not entirely clear if aboriginal people lived here or only came to stay at certain times. what is beyond doubt, though, is that this is and has been a sacred place. the hash patterns signify burial sites and the rock carvings played a role in the women’s initiation rituals.<\/p>\n

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as always a bunch of morons had to use the site to try and immortalise their own pathetic existence. as a result there is now a camera at the site; it is very sad that this is necessary.<\/p>\n

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we stopped at the moss garden for our lunch break. water continuously drips from the rocks, as it slowly seeps through the formations and creates a lush green environment.<\/p>\n

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back at the park we went to see the platypus<\/a> again. the platypus here in the bush resort seem to be used to their superstar role and apparently don’t mind us so much, they just went about their hunt.<\/p>\n

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the light was better today and the pictures are a bit better. lovely<\/p>\n

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duck dive! see what i did there … duck dive … duck bill … ok?<\/p>\n

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and this is the other member of the monotreme family: the echidna. it also lays eggs and raises live young (called puggles, which natalie finds very cute) which are fed milk.<\/p>\n

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echidnas have funny rear legs, sort of turned around, with their toes facing backwards. their favourite food is ants (the short-beaked variety like this one) or insect larvae (the long-beaked echidnas which actually only live in png), which they catch using their sticky tongues.<\/p>\n

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echidans and platypus’ share common ancestor, a platypus-like creature very similar to today’s animals. echidnas then evolved about 50 million years ago to live on land. they rate highly on the cuteness scale.<\/p>\n

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so are these guys; rainbow lorikeets. they live around our house back home as well, they love the grevillias.<\/p>\n

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they were just after a drink from the tap.<\/p>\n

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everyone was queueing up.<\/p>\n

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we think the little guy lost his toy. he probably left a mess in his bedroom – typical kids.<\/p>\n

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he then started to harass his mum instead. she was pretty patient and just got on with grazing.<\/p>\n

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reminds us of our own, doesn’t it. kids ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

we went for a long bush walk through carnarvon gorge today, a really long one. and i must admit, i’m unsure which one i liked better: the takarakka bush retreat or the walk through carnarvon gorge. both were great and are highly recommended. we had been told that the vegetation in carnarvon gorge is similar… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-blog","category-the-long-way-round"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/oz_trip_112-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MvER-3EI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14056"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14208,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056\/revisions\/14208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}