Australian born-and-bred, our new member is an eastern grey Kangaroo from the northern New South Wales suburb of Dawsons Spring, in Mount Kaputar National Park near Narrabri.
Due to visitors in the park feeding her bread, she is now blind in one eye, with a cataract caused by the cow's milk which is used in the production of bread.
Binoculars are useless to her now, however she doesn't let this worry her, as with one eye still in full working condition, she regularly observes through the telescopes of ASNSW members during their visits to the National Park at Mt Kaputar.
As regular visitors to Mt Kaputar National Park will know, the skies from the summit of the mountain, are the best from anywhere in the state. The seeing is usually excellent, and the transparency is by far superior to any other location in New South Wales. At an altitude of 1,524 metres at the summit, it is hardly surprising.