Day 1 (more).

So... ramblins from the beach. Anyway, we really do have kangaroos running wild in the street here. My American (and even some Australian) friends occasionally express disbelief of this fact, but it is true. There is a flock (herd, pride, memo to self, what is the collective noun for 'roos) living right on my doorstep.

I just googled for "collective noun kangaroo" and got "troop or mob". I think that is a little unfair. "Troop" has connotations of military activity, and these animals are pretty sedate and tame, impossible to imagine them indulging in such things. You do occasionally see a couple of big males indulging in a bit of standup boxing, presumably over some female, but then you just need to wander downtown on a friday night and you will see the same sort of thing going on.


"Mob" has even more negative and ugly connotations. "An unruly mob decended on the town center looting and pillaging...". The roos do a bit of looting and pillaging, mostly in gardens, but their preferences seem to run much more to keeping lawns neatly trimmed.