It was a perfect sunny autumn day, not too hot, with the trees in the
countryside on the way to Healesville just beginning to turn, and leaves
strewing the dry late summer grasses with splashes of colour.
Jason and his grandmother found the animal sanctuary fascinating. There were kangaroos, stretched out on the
grass, from the largest, the grey roo, through to small wallabies. In a vast aviary, built outdoors out of
chicken wire mesh and steel poles, they caught sight of wedge-tailed eagles,
and in the darkened aquarium, though there weren’t many platypuses visible,
they did see one or two darting across from one hidey-hole in the mud banks to
another.
Jason could tell that his grandmother was starting to tire, so he was
pleased when Eleanor announced that lunch was booked for 12.30 and they had
better head off to the estate.
“So remarkable, animals quite unlike anything in the rest of the world it
does make you wonder about God’s plan and all those fundamentalists who believe
things should be the way they think and everybody else must conform I’m
surprised they haven’t seen fit to declare platypuses and abomination laying
eggs and with bills like ducks but still mammals Canon Green would find it most
intriguing I must remember to write to him such a dear man but a little absent
minded.”
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