{"id":116,"date":"2007-02-09T02:45:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T02:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getasportsite.com\/ryanhellyer\/2007\/02\/09\/tasmanian-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:05:12","slug":"tasmanian-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2007\/tasmanian-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Aside from the occasional near miss with wallabies and possums scampering across the road in front of our car we (me, Lisa and Vicky) also visited a wildlife sanctuary between Port Arthur and Hobart.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/07\/lisafeedingwallaby.jpg\" title=\"Lisa McLintock feed a Wallaby\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/07\/lisafeedingwallaby.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa McLintock feed a Wallaby\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/07\/tasmaniandevil2.jpg\" title=\"Violent little Tasmanian Devil\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/07\/tasmaniandevil2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Violent little Tasmanian Devil\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/07\/kangarooandjoey.jpg\" title=\"Joey in Kangaroo\u2019s pouch\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/07\/kangarooandjoey.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Joey in Kangaroo\u2019s pouch\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/07\/tasmaniandevil1.jpg\" title=\"Tasmanian Devil blobbing out after a big feed\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/07\/tasmaniandevil1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Tasmanian Devil blobbing out after a big feed\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the occasional near miss with wallabies and possums scampering across the road in front of our car we (me, Lisa and Vicky) also visited a wildlife sanctuary between Port Arthur and Hobart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,5,48,480],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-animals","tag-australia","tag-australia-2","tag-tasmania","last-post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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