And I gotta post about 'em.
Let's start with the fish, since they come first, chronologically. Michael and I got a disposable underwater camera when we went out the outer Great Barrier Reef, and some of the pictures actually came out pretty well. At least they should give you a sense of what we saw.
First, the reef itself, with some small stripey fish:
Slightly different color palette:
Neither of those pictures can really do it justice, though, since the colors don't come out right on underwater film. On to the fish!
Two trumpetfish, swimming close to the surface:
A unicornfish, making it easy to see why it's called that:
The lighting didn't quite cooperate for this shot, but these are unmistakably blue tangs (aka Dory from Finding Nemo):
Finally, the motherlode: A humphead Maori wrasse, with scissortail sergeant fish swimming around it:
So. Freakin'. Cool.
Away from the seas, and on to the skies! This is a wedge-tailed eagle, which I spotted in the Botanic Gardens:
Also from the Botanic Gardens, a crimson rosella:
This is a red wattlebird, named for the patches of skin on its cheeks:
This one is either a white-cheeked honeyeater or a new Holland honeyeater, but even the bird book says they're hard to tell apart, so I'm not going to sweat it:
Slightly blurry view of a male Australian king parrot, in his green coat:
A very dignified-looking magpie:
Michael and I love the way the magpies sound. It's the background sound of Australia for us. Go here to download to a recording of their calls; the sound reminds me of what happens when someone's left the radio on the next room, not quite tuned to a station.
Last and possibly least, a crested pigeon on the ANU campus:
There are more birds around (eastern rosellas, wood ducks, magpie larks, etc.), but I just haven't had the camera handy at the appropriate times yet. But I will get them soon enough...oh yes I will...muwahahaha!!
Ahem.
In closing, a bonus picture: Mammal! Marsupial, even. Brush-tailed possum, to be precise:
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