Last Wednesday night, as I wrote about earlier, was Currie's international night. The theme for the night was subcontinent (i.e. India/Bollywood) but we kicked things off with a sort of parade of nations, where I somehow got chosen to represent the good old USA. We got our names called, marched up to the front of the stage, waved to the crowd, and then lined up so at the end there was a mini-UN up on stage and everyone feels good about internationalism and diversity and whatever. I really had no idea what American national attire was, so I ended up going with a cowboy outfit, which I have only really bad picture of and I will not be sharing that with you all. If a better picture turns up, I'll post it. When I walked up, I just tipped my hat to the crowd, but by far the best salutation of anyone was when Junya, our representative from Japan, went up to the stage. Instead of just waving and walking away, he waved then whipped out a camera and took a picture of the crowd. Got to love a little tongue-in-cheek humor.
I also participated in the big dance performance of the night, where we did four dances to bits of Bollywood songs. Unfortunately I haven't seen many pictures up, and we're still waiting on the video, but for the moment this is the best I have. Should be easy to spot me:
Friday evening my Wildlife Conservation & Management had a field trip to Karakamia Sanctuary, which is a reserve about an hour southwest of Perth. We were there to do a nightwalk and spotlight for marsupials, so I didn't get too many good pictures, but it was a lot of fun.
Main paddock at Karakamia (Cur-ak-uh-my-uh, name comes from Aboriginal word for black cockatoo)
We saw a ton of these tammar wallabies. I like this picture cuz it sort of looks like the wallaby's doing the Heisman pose, if you stretch your imagination a little...
Wedge-tailed eagle nest. Didn't actually see any eagles, but in addition to the wallabies we also saw brush-tailed bettongs, brush tailed possums, western gray kangaroos, brown bandicoots, and a giant wolf spider (which had a really awesome emerald green eyeshine).
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