Känguruspotting am Cape Schanck

The Mornington Peninsula is just about 1 hour drive from Melbourne and is with its steep coasts highly recommended.

With this glorious weather we headed to explore the portion around Bushrangersbay and Cape Schanck.

After a few steps I discovered on a meadow a kangaroo, that we had already discovered. In this environment, the gray kangaroos are able to achieve which up to 1.80 cm in height at home.

When we annäherten us to about 2 m high fence, came to our big surprise equal a lot more of the marsupials to the fore!

And they all stopped to browse, stood on his hind legs and stared at us fix. Well, even though I had the Kangaroos always as sweet little animals in memory, it resembled probably a scene from Jurassic Park where the dinosaurs were disturbed while eating 😉 Alan just said that we are protected by the imaginary for the cows fence, a fallacy like us but later the lighthouse warden said.

The kangaroos are seen by the farmers here rather as a plague, they graze on pasture and destroy the fences although they also can easily jump over it ....

Well it went on, without really meet other tourists to the unique Bushrangers Bay of the beach you can have a good view of the surrounding cliff has and is ideal for a picnic.

Then there were still a few miles to Cape Schanck where the lighthouse is located. Here the brown tones of the rocks mix with the roaring water.

Now only was more the way back to deal with and so we were done according to the total of almost 14 km very nice, but very happy, after all, who gets so many kangaroos in the wild to see so close! Thus, another duty point was met on my trip around the world!