The Third Day on Kangaroo Island

We visited the Parndana Wildlife Park. It was pretty sweet. Most of the animals seemed pretty sad or lethargic though, so we asked the owner what the situation was with them. He said most of them had been rescued and brought back to health, but that the state law forbids the release of rescued animals back into the wild. Then I asked him if I could buy some antlers off him that I had seen sitting in a pile, and he said "no, but you can have some."


This thing is a cassowary. It has one razor sharp claw on each foot that it uses to slice the throat of whatever it's attacking. I guess people are killed by them sometimes.