Common wombat, Bay of Fires, Tasmania, December 2010. My friend and I managed to get quite close to this wombat as it ate beside a lake. The wind was blowing away from it, so it couldn’t smell us. The wombats we came across usually didn’t bother to run away from us. They would just turn themselves as they ate so we would be photographing their bums half the time!

Common wombat, Bay of Fires, Tasmania, December 2010. My friend and I managed to get quite close to this wombat as it ate beside a lake. The wind was blowing away from it, so it couldn’t smell us. The wombats we came across usually didn’t bother to run away from us. They would just turn themselves as they ate so we would be photographing their bums half the time!