We're now in Esperance for a couple of days. As we were driving around the coast we came across this fellow sitting in the middle of road. The friend we were travelling with is a retired wildlife officer. He managed to find something in the back of his car to enable him to pick it up and safely move it off of the road.
I would have liked this to have been a bit sharper but it did give me a bit of a start when it lifted its head and started moving towards me. I was laying on the ground about 30cm in front of its nose.
oh I am so glad you could move it off the road - if you don't have a towel or something to pick them up when they're on the road you just have to be a bit careful - I love echidnas :)
Interesting creature. Nicely photographed, You are braver than me to get that close to it. I just looked them up and see that the only way you could get stuck with a spine is if you actually touch them.
