DINGO DOG CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA JULY/AUGUST 1995
After two weeks on dogless Lizard Island (the lizards were as big as dogs, and ran up to the kitchen when they heard someone rattling dishes, just as Misha, April & Cari do at home, but it just wasn't the same), I was able to get my "canine fix" with this Dingo Dog on the stage of an Aborigine Show at Wild World in Cairns.

It is not so much that I acquire dogs as it is that dogs acquire me. Maybe they even shop for me, I don't know. If they do, I assume they have many problems, because they certainly arrive with plenty, which they turn over to me.

-- E.B. White, The Care and Training of a Dog

MR SCUBA & DOG CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA JULY/AUGUST 1995
Although Mr. Scuba claims not to be as much a "canidlover" as I am, look who's throwing the stick for this dog on the beach!
Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of ever finding its companion? -- Emile Zola

CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA JULY/AUGUST 1995
These fruit bats are also known as "flying foxes", which may be why I liked them so much. Their faces do look like little foxes. This one wanted to see if I was a piece of fruit -- when she found that I wasn't, she stopped chewing on me.

This one was fast asleep, all wrapped up and warm.

Just like deer in US petting zoos, these kangaroos are not willing to wait for you to feed them -- they would rather grab the food out of the bag! This koala was sleeping (koalas sleep about 19 hours a day), so Mr. Scuba tickled it to wake it up -- made a much better picture! The croc's mouth was taped shut, which I protested, but I was told they're pretty vicious even at this young age, so I had to be satisfied with this photo.

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