West Cape Howe National Park includes Torbay Head, the West Australian mainland’s southernmost point.
Near Torbay Head, Shelley Beach is WA’s southernmost 2WD-accessible strand.
The hill above it is WA’s prime location for hang gliding/ parasailing.
Kangaroos like it there, too.
Shortly before sunset on February 5 this year my beloved and I drove up to the aforementioned hilltop.
For the next little while, until another vehicle arrived and disturbed the third mammal then in clear view, it was just “us two + one ‘roo”.
For more than six decades I have loved encountering wild kangaroos; familiarity with them has never rendered them less interesting.
I was blessed to have been raised by farming parents who neither hunted nor harassed, nor ever domesticated “our” kangaroos.
As is true of most sentient beings when closely observed via a camera’s lens, it is remarkable how very different is the appearance – and apparent “personality” – of the very same individual, depending on shifts in light, stance and circumstance.
This post’s seemingly “gentle” individual – pictured above – is in fact the same ‘roo as its seemingly “macho” individual – pictured below.
