Amazulu

Where can I take my son to see wild Kangaroos on the Sunshine Coast?.

debsy

I think Pollyana posted something about wild kangaroos a while back. But I think it was on the Gold Coast

debsy

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...ht=o%27reillys
try this

migrantoz

I dont think wild kangaroos exist, well only dead ones by the side of the road. Last year during a whole month spent in Australia (Victoria and Queensland) I didnt see a single living wild kangaroo.
The only ones I saw were in Zoos.

scrawni

We saw wild roos when we went to the Gold coast, Macleans not far from Byron Bay. Stayed with relatives and they leave the back gate open at night and then the roos come! awsom!


Mandy

Simone

Try grassy areas at sunset or dawn.
Like golf courses at the edge of towns.

lorrimer

In the grounds of the Sunshine Coast university near Buderim.
There are always some there. They were there before the uni was built and are still there refusing to give up there territory to us humans,
Lorrimer

Amazulu

Thanks for that, will give the sunshine uni a go.

dotty

Kangaroos are a pest in OZ, not really hard to find. Any open space or grassy area at dawn or dusk as simone said. Most of the golf courses are covered in them. Many people on acerage have them too. We have a huge male, female and baby that we call the three bears they come and sit on the grass by the pool every morning.

Amazulu

I know they are considered a pest, I've actually shot a couple in Northern Qld, but that's another story!. My wife has a different view & wants our son to see some.

prankster

I grew up on a property (24,000 acres) in Qld (near Roma 6hrs west of Brisbane) We had thousands of wild kangaroos, mobs of up to 500, and when you looked across the paddock on a late afternoon sunset, the paddock seemed to move, and even though they I consider them a pest, the sight was spectacular.

We mostly had Grey kangaroos, and not may Reds. My father forbid me to shoot red kangaroos because of this, so I never did. We were beef producers, surrounded by Sheep producers and so we also had 12 wild Wedge-Tail eagles reside and nest on our property (Sheep producers had problems with Eagles stealing lambs). We'd often shoot Kangaroos, which acted a feed for the Eagles, this of then meant the Eagles didn't have to go next Door for a meal a.k.a the neighbours sheep. The eagles were amazing.

plumber

Take your son to Australia zoo (steve Erwin's place)

Well worth a visit !


all the best plum