Wildlife
The best places across Australia to see kangaroos actually living their lives, not fenced in a zoo.
Wild kangaroos are everywhere in Australia, but 'everywhere' mostly means rural paddocks at dawn and dusk. If you want to see them in a photogenic setting with a reasonable chance of a good encounter, certain parks and beaches outperform the average roadside siting by a wide margin. This is the shortlist.
Lucky Bay and the Whitest Beach Sand in Australia
Lucky Bay in Cape Le Grand is the single best place in Australia to see kangaroos on a beach. The local western grey kangaroos regularly sleep on the sand in the early morning and are unusually relaxed around visitors.
Australia's Galapagos
Kangaroo Island is named for obvious reasons. The island has an estimated 60,000 wild kangaroos, and they are particularly easy to see in the grasslands of Flinders Chase National Park and around the Kingscote golf course at dusk.
Ranges and Rock Art
The Halls Gap caravan park in the Grampians has resident mobs of eastern grey kangaroos that graze the fairways at dawn and dusk. Photographers know it as one of the most reliable wild kangaroo sites in Victoria.
The Southernmost Point of Mainland Australia
Wilsons Prom has large populations of kangaroos, wallabies and wombats all visible from the Tidal River campground area in the early morning. The Mt Oberon summit walk regularly passes grazing kangaroos just off the track.
Australia's Longest River
The Murray River floodplain has some of the largest concentrations of red kangaroos in southern Australia, especially around Mungo National Park and the Hattah-Kulkyne area.
Safety note: wild kangaroos are strong, fast and wild. Do not approach them, do not feed them, and keep a distance of at least 10 metres. Large males (known as boomers) can weigh 80 kilograms and kick hard. Photograph from a distance with a long lens.
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