Mona Golf Club has all the qualification of a even golf society : an 18 - hole golf course , a mini golf trend , a drive mountain chain , a club , and a bistro . But the kangaroo mobs that hop around the hole sum an element of surprise to your otherwise leisurely beat of one of the ho-hum game insports .
consort to Thrillist , the kangaroos have been a mainstay for years , and the club started giving tours a few years ago to ensure visitors could observe them in the safest way of life possible . For about 25 minutes , a volunteer tour guide will drive a golf go-cart with up to 14 passengers around the course , sharingfun factsabout kangaroos and stopping at opportune positioning for mass to snap a few photos of the marsupial , which are most active in tardy afternoon and early morning . Kangaroos are friendly brute , but Anglesea’swebsitereminds visitors that “ they can also be quite aggressive if they feel threatened . ”
Post - graduate pupil and academic faculty from Melbourne University ’s zoology department have been research Anglesea ’s kangaroo universe since 2004 , and some of the animate being are marked with collar and ear tags so the researcher can track movement , increase , survival , and replication normal throughout their life cycle .
One of the rationality kangaroo have continued to dwell on domain so highly trafficked by people is because of the quality of the ground itself , National Geographicreports . The golf course stave regularly dot nitrogen plant food all over the green , which makes the grass particularly intelligent .
If you resolve to be after a trip to Anglesea Golf Club , you could hold a kangaroo tourhere — grownup tickets are $ 8.50 , and children under 12 can issue forth along for just $ 3.50 each .
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