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Saturday, June 12, 2004

Lerderderg State Park (features wombat)

This afternoon I went bushwalking with Greggy, Matt, James (Greggy's dad) and Ken (Matt's dad) in Lerderderg State Park for about three hours. There are a lot of horizontal mine shafts around, from the goldrush. He had two torches, so we went down two. One was about fifteen metres long and the other was about thirty metres long, had a 90ยบ bend in the middle and a wombat hole at the end. The wombat seemed to be half asleep, and was sticking its head out of the hole. We just stood there watching it for quite a while, then it started getting up and moving more, so I thought it was probably a good idea to get out of there. Wombats can be pretty dangerous.