It's been a cold and rainy couple of days in Melbourne and as the night comes early with the days ever-shortening, the best place to be is at home as early as one can!
This post is part of the Travel Tuesday meme,
|and also part of the Ruby Tuesday meme.
We've had a very wintry day today, with cold, wet weather suddenly stopping the fine golden Autumn days that we had enjoyed until now. We need the rain, so roll on Winter!
This post is part of the Mosaic Monday meme,
and also part of the Blue Monday meme,
and also part of the Seasons meme.
The quokka (Setonix brachyurus), the only member of the genus Setonix, is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as kangaroos and wallabies), the quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal.
Quokkas can be found on some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, in particular on Rottnest Island just off Perth and Bald Island near Albany. A small mainland colony exists in the protected area of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, where they co-exist with the critically endangered Gilbert's potoroo.
This post is part of the Saturday Critters meme
