TASMANIA -- HOBART, RICHMOND, BONORONG WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
RICHMOND - a charming little town.
This set of murals, on the Hardware Store front, present a pictorial history.
VINYARD, ON THE WAY TO BONORONG WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
BONORONG WILDLIFE SANCTUARY -- This facility has an extensive veterinary hospital, which treats, for example, surviving young of road-killed wallabys, wombats and nurses them to adulthood. Those able to survive on their own are released to the wild. Others a kept in the park, where visitors can view and feed them.
This albino fellow was rescued from the pouch of its road-killed mother. Lacking normal coloration, it could not likely survive in the wild, so it has a permanent home at the Sanctuary.
The only hazard here is tripping over a wallaby on the walkway.
Tasmanian Devil -- the wild population of this marsupial has been decimated by an epidemic (presumably viral) of a face cancer. The Center has successfully raised cancer-free animals and releases many of them into the wild.
Kookaburra -- a variety of kingfisher
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