[Leica] Kangaroo Island?

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

Is it true that there were once kangaroos and other macropods on Kangaroo 
Island? Is a koala something like a jackalope, a fictitious creature 
invented by the stuffed animal industry to be relentlessly cute? A visit to 
Kangaroo Island does not reveal the answers to these questions.

I've seen seagulls, spiders, and snakes, but nothing that I couldn't see in 
the Bronx Zoo. Strange.

At the information desk inside the visitor's centre at Flinders Chase 
National Park I asked the best place to go to see Australian animals. Her 
answer, and I'm not making this up: "The gift shop."

There are remarkable rocks, though. And entirely too many baby Shiraz vines.