Clockwise: Priscilla the beer drinking pig. Sean, the long-haired Brit, actually beat the pig by about half a second, meaning he now has to sit in the paddock and have chug races with tourists.
The fairy penguins coming ashore in Bicheno, a nightly occurence. They come up out of the water to roost at the same spot every night, and we strolled along with them as they ambled along the path. Penguins don't have eyelids, so we couldn't use flash photography.
Finally, Tassie Devil feeding time at Natureworld in Bicheno. These little guys are quite endangered, as a communicable mouth infection have been decimating their numbers in the wild. They are quite cute, curious, and hyper, until food is involved, at which point they go berzerk and can become quite vicious. One actually jumped out of the paddock, at which point one of the visitors to the centre tried to give it a hoof to the head. Considering the centre is not a zoo but a rehabilitation centre for injured and orphaned animals, I had to fight back the urge to throw this dude into the cage and let the Devils have a go at him.
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