Well today I decided to venture out to Si’s work to meet him for lunch. It meant that I got to sample his daily commute to work – its far!! 2 hours after setting out from the hostel I eventually arrived at the Koala park (10mins away from his office), I don’t know how he can do that twice a day (but then the DS doesn’t have the same appeal to me). After a brief lunch Si left me to the Koalas. Soooo cute. I did see some koalas last time I was in Oz but my memories of them were of cute cuddly things way up high in the trees where you couldn’t really see them. Today was completely different, as you can see from the photo, today I was up close and personal! They were all a lot lower down in the trees and there were even some awake. There were also some very cute young koalas in the nursery. At feeding time the park attendant managed to pry the sleeping Kody off the tree and we all lined up for our cuddle and obligatory photo. They are fascinating to watch and seem completely focused on food or sleeping. I was lucky enough to catch a few glimpses of a baby’s foot peeking out from its mummy’s pouch. Despite staring at the poor mummy for a long time, a foot was all I was allowed to see.
Other wildlife I saw at the park included, kangeroos (obviously!), a joey!!!, wombats, echidnas, sheep(!), fairy penguins (sooo cute!), wallaroos (I thought they were making it up, but apparently not!), flying foxes, lots of birds and an odd turkey type bird who followed me around for a while.
It was a lovely day out and made a change from the beach!