Down Under

Yep, I’m upside down once again. A little more than a week since I arrived and only now found the time to post something. I got to sit on Santa’s lap and e gave me chocolate. I watched an amateur cricket game and saw a Santa piñata getting smashed to pieces. The lollies were shattered as well… For my birthday we drove down to Batemans Bay on the coast. The tide was in, so the pelicans sat on street lamps instead of waddling on the beach:

During a walk in the rain forest we saw an echidna in the wild for the first time ever. They are egg-laying mammals just like the platypus and look like hedgehogs with a beak. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to get a good shot. It was too dark in the woods for my little camera, but here’s my best attempt: