Dimmocks Retreat Wildlife

05/11/2023

Kimmy and baby smiling for the camera. Happy Sunday :)

21/07/2023

It was so lovely to see Genevieve's second baby pop a gorgeous face out tonight. Her first child, Lunar, is still by her side from time to time. Any name suggestions? 😍

16/05/2023

Amazing!

Tour operator Max Jackson said the monitor lizard, which was rarely spotted in Australia, was a calm juvenile that allowed him to interact with it.

26/12/2022

Wait till the end!

17/12/2022

Reconnecting Routes: an underpass project.

From the largest possum to one of the smallest - a long-tailed pygmy possum crosses beneath a busy highway.

After construction of these underpasses, ecologists, road engineers and the tablelands conservation community united to design furniture to line the tunnels. These included rocks and logs on the ground, and dead trees strung with rope for arboreal species to travel along, allowing them to cross without the potential threats of the ground.

When roads isolate populations and fragment the landscape, there is a risk of local extinction and inbreeding. These fauna crossings allow individuals to travel across South Endeavour Trust reserves on both sides of the highway. The corridor gives individuals access to new foraging sites, diversity of mates, and young animals the ability to disperse across the rainforest.

Pygmy possums were a significant target species for this project. I knew they had been recorded on South Endeavour camera traps, and after some false alarms which turned out to be prehensile-tailed rats (another very cool species utilising the passageways) I finally captured this adorable species.

14/12/2022

Beautiful ❤️

02/11/2022

Moo the Emu

29/10/2022

Remembering when Kenno executed a perfect backflip 😂😂🤗❤❤😘💛

19/10/2022

4 years ago already!

14/10/2022

Aggro the crocodile off to his new home for lots of crocodile cuddles. He was our last extra large croc in our online store at 80cm length 😄. We still have his little brother Cole the crocodile in stock at 58cm in length. 🤗😄

We will put more Aggro on order and more new stock arriving for Xmas ❤️🧡

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12/10/2022

Mr Squiggles came to visit from the bush. With the constant rain, at times torrential, the wombats have been getting out and about earlier to get a start on eating. All the burrows everywhere are constantly flooded so they know to go to higher ground to wait it out. Lots of caves in the national park we have seen them retreat to. Little smarties 😁🧡.
Happy ❣️

31/08/2022

Ahh the time Kimmy had the hiccups 🤗😄

24/08/2022

Remember Berrima? She came into care as a little baby during the bushfires of Jan 2020 and was evacuated with us and was called Berrima after the town we evacuated to. 🤗 She popped in for a feed this week and we were over the moon to see her. Still the same cheeky girl living the good life in the bush 😁❤️❤️

10/08/2022

For Ruby came to visit. Such a pretty girl 😍❤️❤️

31/07/2022

The Boys :)
Hanging around the garden and sampling the produce, after checking in for a feed. From left is Flynn (Penny's and possibly others boyfriend), Teddy the ruling alpha male and Otto McBounce (aint he big now? :D). Otto is the only of the three that was raised by us as a little fellow, the other two are wild kangaroos. Did you know kangaroos are browsers? (They dont just eat grass!) Otto sampled a nearby tree and Teddy came right in close and smelt his mouth, as if saying is that good? :) We love watching the interactions of the wildlife and learn so much from just sitting and watching. Happy Sunday!

23/07/2022

Such a beautiful story we had to share ❤️

24/06/2022

Genevieve back when she was a little baby. Now a big mumma wombat with a baby this size of her own :) Happy Friday!

a delightful photo of Genevieve wombat and Oscar kangaroo back in 2018 :)

22/06/2022

oooh Ruby's nose so cute BOOP BOOP!!

Ruby wombat BOOP that nose! BOOP BOOP!

15/06/2022

Timmy Teapot still visiting each winter for a few weeks. Now 6 1/2 years old, big and beautiful with wise old eyes. And Timmy in 2016 in care with us. Happy ❤️ ❤️

06/06/2022

Love this memory of the wombat trio! Definitely one of those stay in bed mornings with the icy polar blasting wind outside! Stay warm! :) Happy Monday!

Monday feels .... these cold mornings require extra snuggle time! Wombat hugs for everyone :)

05/06/2022

Celebrating we continued replanting natives that were lost in the bushfire in 2020. Planting a beautiful Banksia right next to a 150+ eucalyptus tree that survived the bushfire, and a beautiful pink spider grevillea that was donated. The most important thing we can do for this year's theme of is to continue to build back our native habitat. Without our habitat there is no wildlife and has a detrimental affect on humans.

We will continue to build back our habitat on our property and are looking to expand our habitat work with partners in acquiring land under the charity for restoring habitat and protecting under conversation for perpetuity. If you are interested in working with us towards this goal, please contact [email protected].

Big Otto and Penny came in for an evening feed following by Bridgette (remember the first photo and the first kangaroo we found after the fires) with her son Peter Pan.

31/05/2022

27/05/2022

07/05/2022

Happy Mothers Day to the wildlife mums 😁❤️

04/05/2022

Lovely to see Genevieve and baby Luna a few days ago after a rain spell. Luna is growing up beautifully! She is still sticking close to mum's side as an at foot joey but she does wander back to the burrow by herself if she feels unsafe.

02/05/2022

Last orders for Mother's Day, we can express ship. New designs and some favourites in our online store. Oven mitts, keyrings, notebooks, mugs, earrings, aprons, tea towels, glasses cases, shopping totes. Give mum a treat! 🙂
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01/05/2022

Our favourite kangaroo family came in to visit last week. Penny and her long time beau Flynn with their big joey Molly. Penny was found exhausted in the middle of a road at 7kg back in 2017, rehabilitated and released in 2018. She is a bushfire survivor and a proud mama. Flynn appeared on the scene after the bushfires and is one of the most handsomest kangaroos we have seen and never far from Penny's side. He was very active in parent duty for Molly spotted together without Penny in another paddock a few times. Happy Sunday! :)

24/04/2022

Luna the tawny owl has taken two rescued chicks under her wing🦉😍
Watch her rush over to brood them the moment she sees them.
And just listen to all the happy chittering from this new foster family 🐥🐤

15/04/2022