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Road tripping – South West WA: part 1

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 23rd Feb 202023rd Feb 2020
  • Exploring WA

We were back on the road together at last, heading south along the West Australia coastline. There’s no better feeling then eight days of exploring ahead of you! Mitch’s flight arrived around 3pm so it […]

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Exploring Ningaloo- week 9 (last week!)

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 15th Feb 202015th Feb 2020
  • Animals

Today marks the start of the last week of my internship. I was up at 5am to go look for turtles at Five Mile, hoping to see some hatchlings. A cyclone was building further to […]

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Exploring Ningaloo – week 7

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 31st Jan 202031st Jan 2020
  • Exploring WA

I headed out to Bungelup remote camp for the night, driving through a wind driven sandstorm. Red dust was flying across the road in a cloud and swirling above the ground. It was so windy, […]

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Exploring Ningaloo – week 6

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 25th Jan 202025th Jan 2020
  • Exploring WA

This morning at Five Mile was magical. When I was trying to work out where the first two overlapping tracks went I saw sand spraying into the air. Looked again. Yup, it couldn’t be the […]

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Exploring Ningaloo – week 5

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 17th Jan 202016th Jan 2020
  • Animals

Since Mitch and his parents arrived only two days ago it feels like a week has passed, we’ve fit so much in. The first afternoon I took them to Bundegi for a snorkel under the […]

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Exploring Ningaloo – week 3

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 4th Jan 20204th Jan 2020
  • Animals

I walked Jacobsz South to Wobiri today to record tracks. I was dropped off on the side of Yardie Creek Road with another lady to walk 500 metres along a soft, sandy 4wd track to […]

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Road Tripping: Perth to Exmouth – Part 2

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 18th Dec 201915th Dec 2019
  • Animals

Kalbarri to Exmouth The next day was free to explore Kalbarri National Park. The park is huge, it took us a half hour drive from town to reach the first walk called Nature’s Window. Yellow […]

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Small, Blue and Fast

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 12th Dec 201919th Oct 2020
  • Animals

Science in the field: Superb Fairy Wrens It was an overcast morning when we walked into Campbell Park, kangaroos stared disinterestedly at us while munching grass. The researcher we had just met had taken her […]

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Road Tripping: Perth to Exmouth

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 8th Dec 20197th Dec 2019
  • Animals

Western Australia Adventure Part 1 We left Canberra in the dark on a chilly morning, arriving in Perth 6 hours later in jeans and jackets. That was the first mistake. Perth was experiencing a heatwave, […]

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Visiting the mouse house

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 17th Oct 2019
  • Animals

I had the opportunity to see what lies behind the doors of an ANU captive breeding facility. I found hundreds of small, brown, cute eyed creatures. Kiarrah, a PhD student from the Australian National University […]

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