Post #625216 by komohana on Thu, Feb 16, 2012 6:15 AM

just got back from doing some work in that fishing town i mentioned earlier,
named Cervantes by the way, after an American whaling ship that was wrecked
there in 1844, i believe there was no loss of life but the poor buggers had
to walk all the way to Fremantle - our port city - a distance of about 250
kilometres, there not being any other settlements along the coast in those days.

anyway, on the way to buy some hardware, i spotted two emus on the football
field.

unfortunately i didn't have my camera with me so could only use my phone, i've
re-sized the photo but still not so clear, sorry.

these two birds were adults and stood over six feet tall.

on the way back down to Perth, there were another two - an adult and a chick -
on the side of the road, i had to brake when the adult ran out in front of me but
luckily the chick - about 4ft tall - stayed put or i probably would have hit it.

saw plenty of fresh snake tracks while there but no actual snakes.

lots of kangaroos though, there are four in this photo, again from my phone.

the sky looks overcast but was mostly smoke from a bush fire south of Perth.