Oh the joys of having a large, well trained, & fully capable team of Park Volunteers on shift! My first assignment this morning was to be a roving, roaming park ambassador, and I made the most of it, visiting some areas that I usually do not see on a normal shift. I made my way through Bliky Bill's Home Tree, talking to visitors along the way. Through the nocturnal house & up to the bilby environment, where the ghost bats had just been fed. I think one of my pics captured the image of a ghost bat ghost photo-bombing my shot of still very alive ghost bat!
The old bush tucker garden is gone and the whole area has been paved. (Of course I have the lyrics to 'paved paradise & put up a parking lot' going through my head!) Will have to wait to see what becomes of this space.
There is a lot of new-to-me signage & displays at the west side koala nursery.
My second assignment was to monitor activity into Lost Valley before spending the rest of the morning with various kangaroos & wallabies.
That brings me to the once in a career moment for me. I had just come into the grey roo paddock from lost valley and noticed one couple feeding animals at the edge of their rest area. I went up the hill to say hi & keep an eye on things. The guy asked me to take a picture of them, and when he handed me his phone it was set to video. I asked & got confirmation that he wanted me to video them. He did, and when I started recording he dropped one knee, whipped a ring out of a pocket & proposed to the girl! She accepted, so, happy life to Dirk & Nicole from Cape Town South Africa!