a kangaroo’s place
BY astrid volzke, WESTERN AUSTRALIA-BASED MEDIA STRINGER
Red Kangaroos in their soft release enclosure
It’s 5.30 am as I drive down a dirt driveway on the outskirts of Moorine Rock. I have been invited for breakfast and I’m excited. The house yard has 20 kangaroos hopping around and as I make my way towards the front door a cheeky wallaroo reluctantly hops off the doormat to let me enter the house. Ron and Laura are in the kitchen busy prepping milk bottles, chopping apples, corn, cabbage, celery, and peanuts. They offer me a cup of tea. In the lounge room, there is a joey sitting on the couch, not far from a 30-year-old pink and grey galah. Down a corridor is a nocturnal Night Jar and in a yard behind the house are two young emus called Sheila and Bruce. I’m at Parnana Pikurtu Wildlife Sanctuary in the Eastern Wheatbelt and I have come to visit ‘The Kangaroo’s Place’.
Ron Goodhill is passionate about rescuing wildlife
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