Only in Australia

Erik and I just returned from an incredible two week holiday in Nepal. We trekked in the Himalayas, dodged crazy drivers in Kathmandu, and gave an elephant a bath in Chitwan National Park. More posts about the trip coming soon, but for now I want to share two videos of incidents that recently happened Down Under.

Remember my last post about swooping season? Check out this GoPro video from a cyclist in New South Wales, the state just north of our home state, Victoria. The video is in slow motion in the beginning but if you watch until the end, you will see that this cyclist was attacked 6 times in 13 seconds! An article about the video and the attacks can be read here. There is also a website dedicated to magpie attacks so that cyclists and runners can avoid areas where magpies are nesting.

Also in the news this week was a fight between boxing kangaroos that went on for more than 5 minutes! The incident also happened in New South Wales, in a residential neighborhood. Definitely not something that is seen every day in the Lucky Country, so certainly worth a watch!