What the hell is a Quokka?!

*Guest post by Will*


Time to depart Mauritius for Brisbane. I was required to return to Brizzy for a day to obtain a phytosanitary certificate for all the seeds I collected in Australia. During a layover at the Perth airport in the middle of a complete day’s worth of travel, I learned about the quokka, certainly one of the most independently enthusiastic and photogenic of animals that I’m aware of.

The Mauritians are quite infatuated with the Dod as imagery


Quite infatuated

Search google image for "quokka" if you'd like picture of sheer animal joy

Hell yeah

Seriously, hell yeah. This was a lot of work, to put it mildly




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