The kangaroos at Anglesea Golf Club, Victoria, Australia

AustraliaFebruary 27, 20153 min read

Dateline February 27, 2015, Anglesea Golf Club

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A small coincidence at the Wye Cafe.

We drove out from our motel in Apollo Bay with a planned stop for breakfast at the Wye Cafe, about twenty minutes up the coast. When we arrived, John and Janice noticed that it was the same cafe they had stopped at on a previous Melbourne to Adelaide drive. Small world.

Anglesea Golf Club.

We continued the drive into Anglesea and went to the golf club. It was Ladies Tournament Day, so we had a 1:15 tee time. We grabbed some lunch and took in the visuals of the course. Anglesea is famous for all the kangaroos that share the course with the golfers. Looking out from the clubhouse, we could not see any. The golf pro told us that during the heat of the day they sleep, and when it starts cooling off they begin to feed again.

The pro let us tee off on the 10th hole, and we wound our way on a dogleg left to the 10th green. Still no kangaroos. We teed off on the 11th and noticed a fence running along the road that borders the course. We later learned the story: many tourists on buses would stop near the course and run across the fairways to take pictures of the kangaroos, so the fence was put up to keep the tourists out, not to keep the kangaroos in.

As we approached the 11th green, we came across our first mob of kangaroos. From there it was constant through the first nine holes, and a lot of photos were taken. The course is a very good test of golf — the problem is that when there are kangaroos everywhere, you tend to get distracted. Many of them wore collars with names. Permanent members of the club, we figured.

No need to say another word. Here is Anglesea Golf Club.

Stay here son they will leave in a minute

Here little kangaroo I want to make a video

Hurry up and finish they need to hit a shot

Off to Melbourne.

It was a fun, fun round of golf. When we finished, a member of the club asked how we had enjoyed it. The pictures tell the story. She commented on how gentle the kangaroos are, and they really are.

On to Melbourne.

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