Friday 20

1 Friday 20-10-2017 At Depot Beach The next morning, the rain temporarily stops so we do our best to mop up and get as much water out of the tent as we can. The damp bedding has to remain inside unfortunately.	2 Friday 20-10-2017 Breakfast at Batemans Bay After securing the site as best we can, we go into Bateman's and meet Bree, Steve's daughter. We have a really great breakfast and it is lovely to see Bree who is very gracious. We agree to meet her for dinner tonight.	3 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo After breakfast we head down to Mogo Zoo whose motto is Doing good things for animals. Mogo Zoo is a privately owned zoo that supports a collection of endangered and exotic animal species. It boasts the largest collection of primates in Australia.	4 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Entry costs us $26 each and it is worth every pfennig.
5 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Just to the right after entering the zoo are the meerkats. Meerkats sleep in burrows which they sometimes excavate on their own, but frequently they use the burrows of other animals.	6 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo To look out for predators, one or more meerkats stand sentry, to warn others of approaching dangers. When a predator is spotted, the sentry meerkat gives a warning bark or whistle, and other members of the group will run and hide in one of the many holes they have spread across their territory.	7 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa.	8 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Meerkats also babysit the young in the group. Females that have never produced offspring of their own often lactate to feed the alpha pair's young.
9 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The next enclosure contains the white lions.	10 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo A recessive gene gives white lions their unusual colors. A similar gene also produces white tigers. White lions can therefore be selectively bred for zoos, animal shows and wildlife parks. Such breeding involves inbreeding and can result in genetic defects, reduced fertility, and physical defects.	11 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo - Lions Up until 2009, when the first pride of white lions was reintroduced to the wild, it was widely believed that the white lion could not survive in the wild. It is for this reason that a large part of the population of white lions now reside in zoos	12 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The lion evolved in Africa between 1 million and 800,000 years ago, from where it spread throughout the Holarctic region (all the countries of the Northern Hemisphere). The earliest fossil record in Europe was found near Pakefield in the UK is about 680,000 years old.
13 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Lions once roamed most of Africa and parts of Asia and Europe. Today they are found only in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, except for one very small population of Asian lions that survives in India's Gir Forest.	14 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This poor creature, King of the Beasts, was bored stupid	15 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Lions are the second largest of the cat species. Males have a thick mane surrounding their faces that becomes darker and fuller in maturity. The coat is short and generally tawny in colour, cubs are born with brown rosettes, disappearing with maturity.	16 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Lions are predatory carnivores preying on zebra, impala, wildebeest and buffalo. Individuals also hunt smaller prey: rodents, hares and reptiles. Females perform most of the hunting, primarily at night.
17 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo They are usually polygynous (one male, many females), with year-round breeding, peaking in rainy season.	18 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Dominant pride males have mating rights and females will often synchronously reproduce, nursing the young of other females. Females birth on territory outskirts and return when cubs can walk and raised in a crèche scenario. Females will come back into estrus quickly, if cubs are lost.	19 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Lions are very social animals and live in family groups called prides of usually 5-20 but as big as 30-40.	20 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo These prides generally consist of a dominant male or male coalition and 5-10 lionesses with offspring. Males rule for an average 2-3 yrs then triumphed by a stronger younger male. Pride takeovers are violent and usually lead to severe injury.
21 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Lions have a broad habitat tolerance fthat extends from Sub-Sahara grassy plains, savannah woodlands to semi desert. Habitat is largely prey based.	22 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Their threats are poaching, habitat loss for land cultivation and livestock, disease and hunting to prevent livestock loss.	23 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo He stops pacing and goes and sits with the white lioness.	24 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo He begins to yawn.
25 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is the biggest yawn you never want to see from the front. With a mouth that opens this wide, he can bring down a zebra.	26 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Through an old-fashioned cage, we can see another pair of Lions.	27 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This tawny coloured Lion King sits looking very regal.	28 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo He is provided with a lady lion for companionship.
29 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo They pose majestically.	30 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Having a snuggle. I thought this was lovely.	31 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo She gets a quick little affectionate bite on her neck.	32 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Beautiful.
33 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The gardens and parklands are beautifully maintained.	34 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Spring flowers bloom.	35 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is the European Fallow Deer. It is a ruminant mammal that browses on a wide variety of grasses and almost any other plant matter. The fallow deer is a Eurasian deer that was a native to most of Europe during the last interglacial period.	36 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Males occupy two seasonal home ranges; one during rut and one when they are in bachelor groups. Males also have impressive antlers.
37 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The fallow deer is native to Europe, but has been introduced to Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, South Africa, Fernando Pó, São Tomé, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Réunion, Seychelles, Comoro Islands, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Cyprus, Israel, Cape Verde, Lebanon, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, the Falkland Islands, and Peru.	38 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Mating occurs annually during the breeding season, also known as ‘rut’. Males spend most of their time establishing territories and will approach females, sniffing and licking to determine if a female is in estrus. Birthing occurs in a hiding place and females don’t immediately rejoin the herd after birth.	39 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Ostrich feeding time. Ostriches are the largest and heaviest flightless birds in the world. They have powerful legs and feet allowing them to reach speeds of 70km/h. They also possess the largest eye of any land animal and only have two toes on each foot	40 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The dominant female will mate with the alpha male after complex mating rituals. Other females may mate with the alpha or passing males. All eggs are laid in a communal nest with the main hen taking the center position. Incubation is a shared duty between males and females
41 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Common ostriches formerly occupied Africa north and south of the Sahara, East Africa, Africa south of the rain forest belt, and much of Asia Minor.	42 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Today common ostriches prefer open land and are native to the savannas and Sahel of Africa, both north and south of the equatorial forest zone. In Southwest Africa they inhabit the semi-desert or true desert. Farmed common ostriches in Australia have established feral populations.	43 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Jenni paid $10 for the privilege of feeding a Rothschild Giraffe.	44 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Giraffes are strict herbivores. They are ruminants and have a four chambered stomach. They browse on leaves, shoots, fruit and other vegetation - up to 40kgs a day.
45 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The Rothschild Giraffes are a separate subspecies and are native to Uganda and Kenya only.	46 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Rothschild's Giraffe is a subspecies of the Giraffa species. It is one of the most endangered giraffa species with 1671 individuals estimated in the wild in 2016. One way to identify the Rothschild giraffe is by its colouring; the colour spots are darker and the edges more clearly defined.	47 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Giraffes are still found in numerous national parks and game reserves but estimations as of 2016 indicate that there are approximately 97,500 members of Giraffa in the wild, with around 1,144 in captivity.	48 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Giraffes are non-territorial living in home ranges which depend on food and water availability. Acute eyesight allows them to spot predators from a distance.
49 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo If threatened Giraffe can give powerful blows using their legs to kick. Despite their large size Giraffe can reach speeds of over 40km/h	50 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The Giraffe is the tallest land animal on earth, with a distinct long neck, lined with a short mane and a long, strong and dexterous tongue, around 45cm long.	51 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The Rothschild giraffe has a unique blotchy patterned coat, which does not extend past the lower leg. These characteristics differentiate it from other species of giraffe.	52 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Horns are present on the tops of their heads known as ossicones, which are covered in a black tuft of hair. Males also develop calcium deposits on their head, which assist them during fights.
53 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Mating occurs year-round although peaking during the rainy season. Female giraffe or ‘cows’ mate with local dominant males.	54 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Bulls compete by sparring, standing side by side, swaying and curling their necks to thump each other. Fights can be fierce and result in severe injury. Half of their calves don’t survive their first year.	55 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo They form loose herds or towers with no permanent members. Adult female association occurs mostly when their young calves play together. Males leave the herd at around 3 years and sometimes form bachelor herds that look for females in heat.	56 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Jenni thinks they have beautiful eyes and she aasks me to take a few pictures with my superior camera.
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61 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo	62 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo	63 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Next exhibit is the Gorilla enclosure. It's a very large area where the animals are protected from the viewers.	64 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is the Western Lowland Gorilla. They are primarily found in lowland tropical forests in Southern Sudan and southern Ethiopia, east of the Nile River to southern Angola and northern Namibia and northern South Africa.
65 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo They survive best where there is dense ground level herbaceous growth, swamp forest with new growth and hot and humid with year round rainfall.	66 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is Kibabu. After seventeen years at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, the 36 year old silverback has settled into Mogo Zoo with his two favourite females and their offspring.	67 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Kibabu is the leader of the group but, at his age in the wild, he would be challenged and forced out by younger males. As part of a global program to preserve and grow the gene pool of this endangered species, he instead is provided with a retirement plan at Mogo Zoo.	68 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The troop, which includes Kibabu's two favourite ladies, Mouila and Kriba, and their offspring, Mahali and Kipenzi, journeyed from Taronga Zoo to the South Coast on 20 August 2013. They travelled in specially designed and fortified transport crates as part of a convoy that resembled a presidential motorcade.
69 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Kibabu originally came to Taronga Park from Holland in 1996 .	70 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Kibabu has fathered 14 offspring, all of whom will continue to play an integral role in zoos around the world into the future.	71 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Quote: In a major announcement made August 2017, Mogo Zoo unveiled its plans to redevelop and construct a new Great Apes facility. The project will see an alteration and renovation of the current Western lowlands exhibit into an amazing Orangutan facility and adjoining that the construction of a new world class Western Lowlands Gorilla facility. Manger of Life Science at Mogo Zoo, Louise Grossfeldt said ‘The Exhibits design and concept is heavily based on best animal husbandry standards and enrichment practices and will feature plenty of vegetation and water features along with lots of climbing structure and ab oral pathway to encourage and foster natural behaviours.’ ‘The new gorilla area will feature a moated barrier instead of traditional building materials that will create a real sense of openness for the Gorillas whilst providing an enhanced unobstructed view for visitors’ said Ms Grossfeldt. In an Inter-zoo, transfer between Mogo Zoo and Taronga Zoo that will see male Orangutan ‘Jantan’ and female Orangutan ‘Willow’ make the sea change from Sydney to the picturesque town of Mogo located on the South Coast of NSW. "	72 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo We are lucky to arrive in time for the gorillas' lunch. The keeper throws throws an assortment of vegetables over the wall which they pick and choose without argument.
73 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Kibabu will be replaced at Taronga Zoo by a 12-year-old silverback from France. Kibabu weighs 210kg.	74 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The genus Gorilla is divided into two species: the eastern gorillas and the western gorillas (both critically endangered), and either four or five subspecies. They are the largest living primates. The DNA of gorillas is highly similar to that of humans, from 95–99% depending on what is counted, and they are the next closest living relatives to humans after the chimpanzees and bonobos.	75 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is a beautifully landscaped zoo. Cages with bars are rare, most of it is parks and gardens like this.	76 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo i7 shot of some kind of flower. Pretty good for a phone.
77 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Zebras migrate annually across Namibia and Botswana in search of better grazing pastures, forming Africa’s longest land migration of over 400kms. Zebra can reach speeds of 65kph and kicks and bite when threatened. They inhabit Southern Sudan and southern Ethiopia, east of the Nile River to southern Angola and northern Namibia and northern South Africa. They are herbivores that feed selectively on particular grass species.	78 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is the Siamang Gibbon. It is an arboreal black furred gibbon native to the forests of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. It is the largest of the gibbons and can be twice the size of other gibbons, reaching 1 m in height, and weighing up to 14 kg.	79 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo They are social animals that live in small monogamous family groups of up to 8, usually consisting of a dominant breeding pair and their immature offspring. Grooming is one of the most important social activities that cement social bonds.	80 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Threats are the usual: habitat loss due to logging, clearing for palm oil plantations and agriculture, poaching and hunting for the illegal pet trade. The Gibbon is also susceptible to zoonotic disease. Zoonosis: a disease that can be transmitted from animals to people or, more specifically, a disease that normally exists in animals but that can infect humans.
81 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo These are animal enclosures isolated by a surrounding moat. I believe they are for two chimpanzees that have been languishing in a pair of shipping containers for the past two years. Bloody hell but we treat our nearest relatives badly.	82 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The chimps will be moving to Mogo, thanks to a Federal Government grant. Holly and Louis were placed in shipping containers as a temporary measure after their original enclosure at the former Bullens Animal World was demolished to make way for a subdivision. However, a world-wide search was unable to locate a suitable home and the chimps have been stuck in the containers ever since.	83 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Mogo Zoo owners Bill and Sally Padey launched an ambitious fundraising drive to raise the money needed to build a 9,000 square metre home about 12 months ago.	84 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo However, they were still well short of their target until Eden-Monaro MP Gary Nairn handed over a cheque for $97,000. Mr Nairn says the money will help the zoo provide a new home for the chimpanzees, as well as upgrade their lion and cotton top tamarin enclosures.
85 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Part of the beautiful wildlife to be found at Mogo Zoo.	86 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo	87 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo It's a really beautiful facility that is continuously upgraded as money becomes available.	88 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo We enter the Cheetah area. We could only see the one.
89 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is the fabulous Cheetah. It is found in wide range of habitats from open country, semi desert to dry savannah including light woodland. Cheetahs rely on tall grasses for camouflage and is diurnal. Males establish small territories while females migrate with prey herds. In areas where prey is non-migratory male and females have smaller overlapping ranges.	90 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Cheetahs have excellent vision and are the fastest land mammal on earth.	91 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Cheetahs have a unique social organisation. Females are solitary or accompanied by dependent young for up to 18 months. Males are either solitary or live in stable coalitions of two or three, usually brothers, living and working together to defend a territory. Single males may also join unrelated males and form coalitions. Threats are the usual habitat loss and fragmentation, Illegal pet trade and hunting for their pelt. They are also threatened by conflict with livestock and game farmers.	92 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is the Golden lion tamarin. It is a small New World monkey native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil. It is an endangered species with an estimated wild population of about 3,500 individuals spread between four places along southeastern Brazil. There is also a captive population maintained at about 490 individuals among 150 zoos.
93 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is the Emperor tamarin. It is a species of tamarin allegedly named for its resemblance to the German Emperor Wilhelm II. It lives in the southwest Amazon Basin, in east Peru, north Bolivia and in the west Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas.	94 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Emperor tamarins are listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a species of Least Concern (Hooray!), and there are no conservation efforts aimed directly towards this species of primates. Emperor tamarins populations have been in decline due to threats of deforestation and human encroachment. Forest fragmentation has become a huge problem for arboreal primate species in the neotropics: fragmentation causes the tamarins range to be restricted, causing populations to be isolated.	95 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This cute little fellow is the Pygmy Marmoset. It is diurnal and has an arboreal lifestyle with squirrellike patterns of locomotion. It can leap up to 5m.	96 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo It is a small New World monkey native to rainforests of the western Amazon Basin in South America. It is notable for being the smallest monkey and one of the smallest primates in the world at just over 100 grams. It is generally found in evergreen and river edge forests and is a gum feeding specialist, or a gummivore.
97 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo These are Bolivian Squirrel monkeys. Squirrel monkeys are New World monkeys that live in the tropical forests of Central and South America in the canopy layer. The common squirrel monkey is captured for the pet trade and for medical research but it is not threatened. However, two squirrel monkey species (not Mogo Zoo's) are threatened: the Central American squirrel monkey and the black squirrel monkey are listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.	98 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Squirrel monkeys live together in multimale/multifemale groups with up to 500 members. Their small body size also makes them susceptible to predators such as snakes and felids. Squirrel monkeys are omnivores, eating primarily fruits and insects. Occasionally, they also eat seeds, leaves, flowers, buds, nuts, and eggs.	99 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo "Mogo Zoo have taken delivery of some very cute new additions all the way from Dubbo on October 3, 2016." They were very active when we arrived.	100 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo These Oriental Small-clawed Otters and were bred in captivity by Taronga Zoo at Dubbo. The small-clawed otter inhabits mangrove swamps and freshwater wetlands in South and Southeast Asia. It lives in extended family groups with only the alpha pair breeding; offspring from previous years help to raise the young. Due to ongoing habitat loss, pollution, and hunting in some areas, it is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
101 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo We wondered what this one was doing by ripping branches from the tree.	102 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo It was really cute to watch.	103 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo They move too quickly to get a good picture.	104 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo It turns out that it was building a nest in the hollow log. The original news release said that they were all brothers but I suspect some females have joined the family.
105 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Now to the Snow Leopards. Is there a more beautiful animal than this? Unfortunately they were caged in an old fashioned steel bars and mesh enclosure. No doubt there are plans to improve their enclosure. Even the signboard is years out of date.	106 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is the female Snow Leopard. She sits alone in her part of the cell.	107 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo She climbs down from her position and wanders over to the male.	108 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The male is Ilyan, the Zoo's 5 year old Snow Leopard. Ilyan arrived at Mogo Zoo in 2010 from Sweden at just 2 years of age. After arriving in a foreign country, and Ilyan not being able to understand his new keeper's commands in English, it was necessary for Mogo Zoo to retain the services of a Swedish interpreter in order to teach Ilyan's keepers how to communicate with him.
109 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The snow leopard is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species; the global population is estimated to number less than 10,000 mature individuals and to decline about 10% in the next 23 years. As of 2016, the global population was estimated at 4,500 to 8,745 mature individuals.	110 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Snow leopards have several adaptations for living in a cold, mountainous environment. Their bodies are stocky, their fur is thick, and their ears are small and rounded, all of which help to minimize heat loss. Their paws are wide, which distributes their weight better for walking on snow, and they have fur on their undersides to increase their grip on steep and unstable surfaces; it also helps to minimize heat loss. Snow leopards' tails are long and flexible, helping them to maintain their balance, which is very important in the rocky terrain they inhabit. Their tails are also very thick due to fat storage and are very thickly covered with fur, which allows them to be used like a blanket to protect their faces when asleep.	111 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo What's he doing?	112 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Oh dear! Oh goodness me! Good heavens, he's hurting her!
113 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Phew, glad that's over (she says)	114 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This may be the Francois leaf monkey but I can't see its face.	115 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is the silvery gibbon. It lives exclusively on the island of Java, Indonesia, where it inhabits deeply hidden portions of the rain forests. It is diurnal and arboreal, climbing trees skilfully and brachiating through the forests. The silvery gibbon ranks among the most threatened primates. It is listed as Endangered on the 2009 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Brachiation, or arm swinging, is a form of arboreal locomotion in which primates swing from tree limb to tree limb using only their arms.	116 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The silvery gibbon ranks among the most threatened primates. It is listed as Endangered on the 2009 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species,
117 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Not too many of these out today - they were mostly inside cages at the local schools.	118 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This poor beast is the Sumatran Tiger. It is a tiger subspecies that lives in the Indonesian island of Sumatra and it was listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2008, as the population was estimated at 441 to 679 individuals, with no subpopulation larger than 50 individuals and a declining trend.	119 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The Sumatran tiger is the only surviving population of the Sunda Islands' group of tigers that included the now extinct Bali and Javan tigers. Sequences from complete mitochondrial genes of 34 tigers support the hypothesis that Sumatran tigers are diagnostically distinct from mainland subspecies. It makes me so sad to read things like this.	120 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo In 1978, the Sumatran tiger population was estimated at 1,000 individuals, based on responses to a questionnaire survey. In 1985, a total of 26 protected areas across Sumatra containing about 800 tigers was identified. In 1992, an estimated 400–500 tigers lived in five national parks and two protected areas.
121 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo He was bored out of his brain and would let out a blood-curdling roar as he paced up and down.	122 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo Analysis of DNA is consistent with the hypothesis that Sumatran tigers became genetically isolated from other tiger populations after a rise in sea level that occurred at the Pleistocene to Holocene border about 12,000–6,000 years ago.	123 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo The binturong (also known as bearcat) is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia. It is uncommon in much of its range, and has been assessed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List . Although called 'bearcat', this omnivorous mammal is related to neither bears nor cats but to the palm civets of Asia. The binturong is one of only two carnivores with a prehensile tail (the other is the kinkajou).	124 Friday 20-10-2017 Mogo Zoo This is a wonderful zoo. Sure, it can be criticised for some of its old fashioned enclosures but this fades into insignificance when viewed from above: it is part of a world-wide network of zoos working to prevent these wonderful creatures from disappearing completely under the onslaught of humans. For this, Mogo Zoo is to be commended and recommended.
125 Friday 20-10-2017 Bunnings As part of my continuing desire to provide Jenni with only the best of experiences, on the way back to camp I take her to the Bunnings hardware store in Batemans Bay. The purpose of the camping trip was to find out what we didn't know (a lot) and what we should have taken but didn't. At Bunnings, I buy a stout pole to hold the tent roof up and a saw to trim it to length. Jenni buys a whisk broom and dust catcher, a broom and a clothes drying stand. I also get a bucket and a huge plastic tub to put our dirty (and wet) clothes in.	126 Friday 20-10-2017 Back to Depot Beach Then we walk up to the northern side of Depot Beach from our camp at the southern end.	127 Friday 20-10-2017 Back to Depot Beach There are kangaroo droppings everywhere and it's difficult to avoid treading in them.	128 Friday 20-10-2017 Back to Depot Beach This area is part of the Batemans Marine Park. The marine park includes approximately 850 km2, extending from the three nautical mile offshore limit of NSW waters to the mean high water mark within all rivers, estuaries, bays, lagoons, inlets, and saline and brackish coastal lakes (excluding Nargal Lake); and offshore islands including Tollgate Islands and Montague Island. Note the pink sanctuary areas (which do not include Depot Beach itself).
129 Friday 20-10-2017 Back to Depot Beach The Batemans Marine Park is a multiple use park with a comprehensive zoning scheme designed to protect the natural values and sensitive areas including providing for recreational and commercial use.	130 Friday 20-10-2017 Back to Depot Beach About the Sanctuary zones (coloured pink on the map). These are the rules: No fishing or collecting of any species of plant or animal is permitted within this zone. Sanctuary Zones provide the highest level of protection for long-term conservation of marine biodiversity. The only activities permitted in sanctuary zones are those that do not involve the harming or taking of any plants or animals. All fishing is prohibited in these zones so that marine life can continue to thrive and reproduce. Fish or fishing gear cannot be cleaned in a sanctuary zone. All vessels may enter sanctuary zones, but fishing gear must be stowed. Moored or anchored vessels in sanctuary zones must have all fishing lines unrigged. Most recreational activities may be conducted in sanctuary zones including swimming, sightseeing, boating, surfing, snorkelling, diving and approved research and educational activities.	131 Friday 20-10-2017 Back to Depot Beach This Japanese couple were funny. They crept up close to the kangaroos and then got spooked. They ran down the hill where they stopped at what they considered to be a safe distance.	132 Friday 20-10-2017 Back to Depot Beach Now we're jumping ahead in time again. That evening, we meet Bree at a Yacht Club restaurant. A very nice band is playing; keyboard with lead and rhythm guitars. The woman who plays the keyboard also sings and she should not have. We order and wait; nothing complex, a wrap for me and fish 'n chips for the ladies. It takes forever; so much so that when the waitress comes back, Jenni complains. The waitress departs and comes back with the standard answer, "It's on its way".
133 Friday 20-10-2017 Back to Depot Beach Another fifteen minutes go by and we ask again and get the same answer. I say, "That's what you said last time, what's that in minutes?" She can't answer. Eventually the meals come and they are quite nice. When we're finished, the boss lady comes around and asks, "How was everything?" We tell her and she takes a complete round of drinks off the bill and thanks us for our feedback. That's pretty nice.	134 Friday 20-10-2017 Back to Depot Beach We drive back in the dark again, have our nightly ablutions, a shower and settle in for the night on top of our damp bed under our cold, damp doona. Jenni doesn't sleep so well and has to take two sleeping pills. I sleep right through until 7:30 although with a couple of pee breaks.