Another blog catch-up!  At Sydney airport waiting flight to Auckland new Zealand.  Last two days were at Adelaide Australia area.  Had tour of kangaroo island, Tasmania is Australia's largest island, second largest is in far north, and it is just slightly larger than kangaroo island which is third in size.  Two hour bus ride to port, an hours trip on ferry to island, then two hours by second bus to first tour destination, a seal colony on the southern ocean (the bottom ocean under the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, surrounding the Antarctic continent).   We didn't just look at the seals, but we walked on the beach amount them.  Usually very hum-drum, but while we were strolling on the beach by circling around the seals so as not to get too close to them, which they usually tolerate and just ignore the strollers...us. there is a flattish beach with maybe fifty seals, with only two huge beach masters which we were not near,  when down the hill thru the underbrush crashed a third huge male, apparently on his way to challenge one of  the two beach master dominant males with a harem of female seals.  But our group of tourists were inbetween these two huge, maybe 400 pound, seals, the forest ranger and bus driver-guide got us moving but fast.  We'd had a cautionary lecture on beach safety, and the what ifs this and what if that occurs what we were to do.  #1, stay in a group in order to make a large mass of people, and not to become separated, one by one, because when the bulls are enraged they are very aggressive and get rid of anything in the way to his goal the other male.  But these two guides broke that rule and separated the group to make a space for the raging bull to go between us on his way to his opponent.  Two thirds of us with one guide went further away up the beach, and a third of us made a hasty retreat back to the wooden stairway.  And the bull just continued his charge down the beach inbetween .  We had strung out a little and were in a line, rather than in a huddle together.  That's why the pette female guide split us up, to make a hole for that charging bull.   After he roared past the other part of the tourists made a dash for the stairway.  And walking on sand, you don't have great footing, it is slower going than on packed earth or a pavement.   All were safe.  The beach guide from the park service, said later that we had done very well and listened to her commands.  Truthfully, I never heard or saw him til he was roaring down the beach, and I just followed the bus driver guide to the stairway.  The park guide before hand and afterward had been telling us the different signals the seals give to show their emotions, snorts, facial whiskers up, head positions....   upon reflection the park service guide had already been bunching us up into a group rather than a line just before the attack!   She really was so happy no one had gotten hurt.  She hadn't had an encounter this potentially dangerous in years, and this incidence was one of the worst she seen or had heard of.  The rest of the day was more anticlimactic after the bull incident.  I didn't see it myself, but the bull on the beach rose up and the Challenger coming downhill ran off at a tangent.  I was so intent at looking at the people in our group that I never noticed the after math with the bulls.  From start to finish I doubt it took a full minute, but I never noticed the time while the action was going on.  Then we had a great lunch, visited several rock formations on different parts of the sea shore, viewed the burnt results of a huge forest fire eight years previous.  The climbs down the beach, with the fierce winds, and sea spray to see the admirals arch and some ancient granite rocks right on the shore, with the ocean side wet and slippery from the pounding waves was dramatic too.  We visited an animal reserve for kangaroos and koalas, and I got pretty good pictures of both, even though I was soaked to the skin while pursuing the kangaroo pictures, a cats and dogs rainfall came down for less than ten minutes, but those were the ten minutes I was several blocks from the bus.   the following 'breezes' on the previously mentioned sea shore rock viewing dryed me off pretty quickly.  We rode buses, and ferry's for nine hours, leaving the hotel at 6:15 am and returning at ten to eleven pm.  Didn't see much of aidelaide, except for the stroll I took looking for dinner the first nite, and the rides on the bus through the city.  Oh saw a Target, Kmart and Woolworths.  The first two are clothing stores, and the Target had better styles than out Targets, but had nothing else but clothes and bedding. Didn't get into the Kmart, but Woolworths is a food store not too different than our HyVees.