Audrey and I went along to the Botanic Gardens tonight for a 'Twilight Forest Adventure'.It was a specially organised evening run as part of Science Week which allowed a small select-group of Canberrans to be escorted through the Botanic Gardens at night in search of nocturnal animals and bugs. We enrolled a couple of weeks ago and were lucky to get in (there was a waiting list of 88 people who didn't make it!)
The Botanic Gardens has a rainforest area (a pretty unusual site in temperate Canberra) and we got the chance to walk through the rainforest in the dark with only torch-light to guide us.
Our excellent guide Bruce (who we knew) picked out a few possums (both ringtail and the bigger brushtail) a very friendly Eastern grey kangaroo and a very sleepy wattle bird. The other groups spotted owls and one lucky group saw three sugar gliders which are a very cute marsupial.
Our walk lasted over an hour and although she was kept going by the Milo and buscuits which we were given at the end of our (free) walk Audrey was a very tired little girl when we got home at 9.30pm, some 2 hours past her usual bedtime.
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