Last week Gavin took me to the Koala Park. It is one place I have been waiting to visit since I arrived in Australia. I was not disappointed. It is a small zoo in Sydney containing mostly animals native to Australia. The main attraction, as the name implies, is the koalas. I was able to pet one at feeding time. Her name is Chocca and she is 11 years old. Some things I learned about Koalas:
- They sleep 18-20 hours per day. This is not because they are drugged by the eucalyptus leaves they eat. They are just sleepyheads.
- When they are asleep they look like they were taxidermied and stuck in a tree several decades ago.
- While their fur is a bit bristly it is stiff quite soft.
- They are kind of smelly.
The other animals we were allowed to pet were the grey kangaroos. We were able to go into their enclosure and feed them cheerios. Some observations about kangaroos:
- They are soft.
- They like cheerios.
- It hurts if they accidentally bite you while you feed them.
There were a lot of other animals including a wombat, wallabies, emus, cassowaries, a dingo, penguins, an echidna, peacocks, and sheep. Check out the
website and see what good celebrity company I am in having visited the place.
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