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Baby Koalas!
May. 24th, 2006 08:48 pmLast winter, it was cold and wet and snowing and I trudged up Niddry Street again and again to greet yet another ungrateful tour group who did not understand that by 'I'm cold and hungry and would like to go to the pub' I did not mean 'I'm full of beans and incredibly funny'. But I had to buy a ticket to the other side of the world and so I had to focus on the money. So, on the back of my Auld Reekie name badge (which said 'Amanda') I wrote: Baby Koalas.
I love koalas. I have a stuffed toy named Koaly, which I have had since I was 3. Yet had never seen one in the flesh. When in Rockhampton, we visited the botanics and I saw three, and was content. However, the aim, the Mecca, the Reason I Hat Baby Koalas Written On My Name Badge, was the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, just outside Brisbane. Over 130 koalas of all types and sizes, and the only place in the world where it is legal to hold one (due to their stringent policies and number of koalas - each one gets held for about half an hour every 2 weeks) and be photographed.
Week after week we've planned to go. There's a boat which cruises you down the river to the sanctuary. Week after week we have been unable. Working. Busy. Skint. Family. Etc. BUt this week was the week. We went. And it was good.
It was amazing! There were joey koalas so small that they were in their own special bit with just theit mum and if you looked really really hard you could see this one joey climbing out of his mother's pouch and onto her back before deciding the world was a bit too scary just yet. Anf of course, I had my photo taken with a lovely young girl koala called Sprite:
( me and Sprite )
(incidentally that top is green yet looks blue on that photo - or does on this PC)
There was also a bird who said hello to us as we approached and goodbye as we left again. That was cool and very, very, surreal.
Hmmm. I will die happy.
Lizziex
I love koalas. I have a stuffed toy named Koaly, which I have had since I was 3. Yet had never seen one in the flesh. When in Rockhampton, we visited the botanics and I saw three, and was content. However, the aim, the Mecca, the Reason I Hat Baby Koalas Written On My Name Badge, was the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, just outside Brisbane. Over 130 koalas of all types and sizes, and the only place in the world where it is legal to hold one (due to their stringent policies and number of koalas - each one gets held for about half an hour every 2 weeks) and be photographed.
Week after week we've planned to go. There's a boat which cruises you down the river to the sanctuary. Week after week we have been unable. Working. Busy. Skint. Family. Etc. BUt this week was the week. We went. And it was good.
It was amazing! There were joey koalas so small that they were in their own special bit with just theit mum and if you looked really really hard you could see this one joey climbing out of his mother's pouch and onto her back before deciding the world was a bit too scary just yet. Anf of course, I had my photo taken with a lovely young girl koala called Sprite:
( me and Sprite )
(incidentally that top is green yet looks blue on that photo - or does on this PC)
There was also a bird who said hello to us as we approached and goodbye as we left again. That was cool and very, very, surreal.
Hmmm. I will die happy.
Lizziex
