Siamanges and the goat rescue

Continuing on about our recent holiday...

The highlight in the zoo was the Siamanges. The siamanges have throat pouches that can inflate to make loud resonate sounds. Here is a short video we took while these apes howled. The mummy Siamanage carried a two-week baby on her tummy and the daddy Siamanage ran round showing his arm muscles to warn us off. The kids loved them!



The highlight in Mudgee was the goats. We spent some time in this place called 'Leaning Oak' patting goats (or more correctly, one goat in particular). This friendly goat followed us around like a dog. She had a collar on so I thought her was a family pet. We later found out that only the 'naughty' ones get to wear collars (so people can get hold of them easier). This friendly goat made an attempt of eating everything the kids thrusted into her mouth and seemed to enjoy the attention. She did some funny jumps away from Sam, other than that, she followed the kids around while they looked for 'food' for her to eat. 




After lots of patting and photos, we went inside to try the goat cheese. I bought a block of brie and some goat cheese in pesto (yummy!) and we chatted to the lady owner about her goats and sheeps (one of them had babies the night before). Just before we were about to leave, we heard strange high-pitched sound coming from the shed. The next minute, the owner lady ran out from the tasting room into the shed shouting after her that the goats are in disstress. Then she ran out and asked if Simon could go and help her. It turned out that two of the goats wandered into the shed and fell into the underground water tank. The cover to the tank broke and the male owner in fact left for town just after we arrived to get new covers for the tank. The water tank was very deep and luckily Simon was around to help the goats out. It was nice now back at home we talked about the goats while eating the lovely cheese (wish I have bought more!!).