three-year-old son , Jake , who ’ s more interested in playing a game of hide and seek with a trusting pademelon 1 . Deep within the Tasmania forests it has that effect , everything is friends .
Tomorrow we ’ ll move on , further north , to reacquaint the coast and yet here , amongst the forest and the movement of the coming dusk my mind drifts back to that rocker of the 1980 ’ s for “ this must be just like living in paradise ” … “ and I don ’ t wanna go home ” … MG
1 . Pademelons are the smallest of the Thylogale family of marsupials , similar in appearance to a kangaroo or wallaby . The name pademelon comes from the Dharuk Aboriginal language of what is now known as Sydney . The word is derived from badimaliyan .