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Hai! In this post I would like to introduce you to my adorable friend here, quokka.
The quokka (/ˈkwɒkə/, Setonix brachyurus), the only member of the genus Setonix, is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as the kangaroos and wallabies), the quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal. It can be found on some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, in particular on Rottnest Island just off Perth and Bald Island near Albany.
The quokka has no fear of humans and it is common for it to approach them closely, particularly on Rottnest Island. It is, however, illegal for members of the public on Rottnest Island to handle the animals in any way. An infringement notice carrying a A$300 fine can be issued by the Rottnest Island Authority for such behaviour. In addition, prosecution of the offense can result in a fine of up to $2,000.
You might know this animal from various posts in social media tagged as 'The Happiest Animal on Earth', well you are not wrong. This cute little marsupial always looks like an idiot smiling whenever they are in a photo. They are famous for their default smiling poses.
These are some of the famous quokka selfies around.
Hai! So in this post I would like to tell you my experience on 21st February. That day was the opening ceremony for the Dewa Athena program. Dewa Athena is a program for sport like a monthly sport contest. The opening ceremony for this program was Color Run. Fun fact : color run is an agenda where the participants run around a track while being sprayed or powdered by a colored compounds, which made the participants' clothes bathed in diverse colors. The color run took place around Lapangan Bali. The participants had to run around Lapangan Bali and then back to Lapangan Bali. At the end of the route the organizer of the run sprayed some colored water to the participants' clothes. After that Dewa Athena was officially started with some games.
The Seven Coloured Earth(s) (Terres des Sept Couleurs in French) are a geological formation and prominent tourist attraction found in the Chamarel plain of the Rivière Noire District in south-western Mauritius. It is a relatively small area of sand dunes comprising sand of seven distinct colours (approximately red, brown, violet, green, blue, purple and yellow). The main feature of the place is that since these differently coloured sands spontaneously settle in different layers, dunes acquire a surrealistic, striped colouring. This phenomenon can also be observed, on a smaller scale, if one takes a handful of sands of different colours and mixes them together, as they'll eventually separate into a layered spectrum. Another interesting feature of Chamarel's Coloured Earths is that the dunes seemingly never erode, in spite of Mauritius' torrential, tropical rains.
The sands have formed from the decomposition of volcanic rock (basalt) gullies into clay, further transformed into ferralitic soil by total hydrolysis; the two main elements of the resulting soil, iron and aluminium, are responsible for red/anthracite and blue/purplish colours respectively. The different shades of colour are believed to be a consequence of the molten volcanic rock cooling down at different external temperatures (hence rates), but the causes of their consistent spontaneous separation are yet to be fully clarified
Source : http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Coloured_Earths
