Many years ago, the early Dutch and Spanish explorers would make future travels easier by leaving a few animals and planting a few trees in foreign countries and knowing that in a year or two when they would return, there would be food available.
On the southern coastline of New Guinea, the Dutch released Rusa Deer and they're still here today.
The lodge on the banks of Bensbach River was originally set up for hunters and they would come and shoot things, like Deer, Crocodiles, Pigs and Birds. Oh and big fish. You can still catch the fish and we did, but if you want a feed of Venison, then you have to ask the locals and two boys on their bicycles will head off and come back with a leg for the oven.
That deer looks like he has ostrich tendancies...looks like he has had his head burried in the mud! Unfortunatley, I guess their planning has been the undoing of alot of native flora and fauna
@houdiniem - we ate well at the Lodge, Roasted Venison one night, Wallaby steaks the next and then GF caught a massive 30Kg Barramundi which we baked. Very good tucker!
@palusami - Good thing the local lads on their bicycles were quiet then!
Now that is some serious camouflage. As for the cranes, I once got to see thousands of sandhills migrating through the US, and it was just an amazing sight.
@swilde - I'm thinking they use it as an excuse to feed the Village too, but I believe the pilot who got us here has a deep freezer and he transports the meat and the fish to his other resorts...
he looks very sturdy. similar but different from the ones we have here. ours are more graceful looking, they look more delicate and longer limbed . fantastic capture.
@bobfoto this one looks like it rolled in the mud and wore it for a crown. yes, agreed, hard to be or look graceful then. ours, though, have longer legs and their faces are more narrow. they look like bambi, you know?
NO! Janet's right! That deer was camouflaged. You wouldn't have seen it (or at least well) if it had remained on the ground. Right now, he's giving you the jedi stare thinga majig. "You do not see me"
Um...no on any creepy crawling spider things. Sorry. I've got huge ass ones trying to invade my home as we speak. And a shark... poor misunderstood creature. ;) Snakes, I rather like them, but not the poisonous sneak up on you kind. Alright, revision, why do all the furry animals have to be so cuddly? :) See Wolverine, Badger, and Grizzly Bear for my regional not so friendly furry critters.
PS... I have the Black Widow ones under my house, and other funnel ground spiders building their little homes around the perimeter. Although, admittedly my wolf spiders appear to be smaller than your Sydney funnel web guy.
@hellcat - we had Thylacines, and we still have Tasmanian Devils and no they look nothing like the one on Warner Bros. We have Dingos, but they're kinda cuddly too, and well so are the Devils...
That was the video I saw... it looked massive (the wombat) on this girls lap and she was scratching away at the belly. And pulling on a nub she called a tail....
@rvwalker @lanir - He was using his Antlers to dig up the ground in search of tasty grass roots!
@danig @dmcrisp @kjarn @lily @geocacheking @kandernob - Thanks everyone, it was very cool to see this Deer up close!
@palusami - Good thing the local lads on their bicycles were quiet then!
@cocobella - only so he can get grubby again?
@amyvanross - I think on the young and tender get captured....
@rwhite @filsie65 @carolmw - Thank you ladies :)
@jcarrollphoto - Cheers Jim, he legged it after this one pose.
@archaeofrog - Love seeing the Cranes (or Brolgas) en masse!
@girlie - They could be found in the hills behind Moresby.
@michelleyoung - Thanks Michelle :)
@doodlerdeb - Why thank you Debra, and thanks for the follow! Hope you enjoy the ride!
@dalboy - We were after only young and tender legs!
@corymbia - His grubby hat?
But Wombats ROCK!