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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 197264" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>The bird sanctuary sounds like Currumbin. It's famous for it. But it's up on the Gold Coast, south of Brisbane on the border of Queensland and New South Wales.</p><p></p><p>Currumbin still has a lot of lorikeets but there's a few other tourist places there including a caravan park, and they've 'stolen' a lot of the lorikeets, they get sidetracked. We were in Currumbin six years ago with the kids.</p><p></p><p>Does this look familiar?</p><p><a href="http://www.pbase.com/scapes_photography/image/55707546" target="_blank">http://www.pbase.com/scapes_photography/image/55707546</a></p><p></p><p>Our next door neighbour puts out bowls of water for the lorikeets - every morning and every evening, it's like Currumbin outside our back door. The budgies hear the lorikeets and it drives them crazy - they want to go play with them. But the lorikeets would tear the budgies to pieces if they ever got out.</p><p>The lorikeets love to play in water, they're amazing to watch. The various sanctuaries use a special lorikeet mix that mixes up like baby cereal into a sort of runny porridge. We've got a packet of the stuff, sometimes we might decide to feed them (if we have friends visiting from overseas, for example) and we stand outside with a dish of this gruel and a big bowl of water. Yes, these are wild birds (like they are at Currumbin) but they're tarts for gruel and fresh water.</p><p></p><p>With your new Aussie mate, ask him if he recites Aussie bush ballads. Aside form "Man From Snowy River" another good favourite is "Clancy of the Overflow" or "Man From Ironbark " (which is hilarious). These three poems are all by Banjo Patterson.</p><p></p><p>If he does, you are in for a treat - a good Aussie bush ballad, read by a typical Aussie bloke - that's what they were written for. If you love Aussie accents, you're in for a real treat. And if he wants to do something with this, he should check out the folk club groups in the area, he will make a lot of new friends. It's easy to download these poems online, you just type in a line of text between double quote marks, pop it into Google and you should get the full poem really easily.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 197264, member: 1991"] The bird sanctuary sounds like Currumbin. It's famous for it. But it's up on the Gold Coast, south of Brisbane on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. Currumbin still has a lot of lorikeets but there's a few other tourist places there including a caravan park, and they've 'stolen' a lot of the lorikeets, they get sidetracked. We were in Currumbin six years ago with the kids. Does this look familiar? [url]http://www.pbase.com/scapes_photography/image/55707546[/url] Our next door neighbour puts out bowls of water for the lorikeets - every morning and every evening, it's like Currumbin outside our back door. The budgies hear the lorikeets and it drives them crazy - they want to go play with them. But the lorikeets would tear the budgies to pieces if they ever got out. The lorikeets love to play in water, they're amazing to watch. The various sanctuaries use a special lorikeet mix that mixes up like baby cereal into a sort of runny porridge. We've got a packet of the stuff, sometimes we might decide to feed them (if we have friends visiting from overseas, for example) and we stand outside with a dish of this gruel and a big bowl of water. Yes, these are wild birds (like they are at Currumbin) but they're tarts for gruel and fresh water. With your new Aussie mate, ask him if he recites Aussie bush ballads. Aside form "Man From Snowy River" another good favourite is "Clancy of the Overflow" or "Man From Ironbark " (which is hilarious). These three poems are all by Banjo Patterson. If he does, you are in for a treat - a good Aussie bush ballad, read by a typical Aussie bloke - that's what they were written for. If you love Aussie accents, you're in for a real treat. And if he wants to do something with this, he should check out the folk club groups in the area, he will make a lot of new friends. It's easy to download these poems online, you just type in a line of text between double quote marks, pop it into Google and you should get the full poem really easily. Marg [/QUOTE]
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