Last week-end we spent a few days at the light house cottages at Green Cape
in Ben Boyd National Park.

Green Cape is a magnificently scenic spot halfway between Eden and the Vic
border on the NSW far south coast. It turns out it is OK for mammal
watching too, on top of the good birds.

After tea we took a torch out onto the lawns around the cottages and the
bush edges and saw 6 species:

Wombat, Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Swamp Wallaby, Long-nosed Bandicoots, Common
Ringtails and 3 Bush Rats. So great fun searching these things out and
there was the lure of even more. The ranger said Southern Brown Bandicoot
and 2 species of Antechinus (Brown and Dusky) were also quite possible.

Seeing marine mammals is also about as easy as it gets for watching from the
land. Sit on the verandah to see, Bottlenose Dolphins, Humpbacks, usually
Fur Seals (but absent on this occasion) and on our last visit a huge pod of
Common Dolphins.

John Goldie and Kathy Walter

Watson, ACT