While my mother was still here we made the trip to the Koala Sanctuary. It was SO COOL. These still guys are quite lazy and spend nearly all their time asleep or munching on leaves. But boy are they cute. At the sanctuary they are split up by age and you can go around seeing all sorts of them.
Not only can you look at these little marsupials, but you can hold one if you pay a fee. They are soft. Like really, really soft. Of course I paid the fee to hold one, because really, how could you resist? you couldn't. They are begging to be held. Well, not really, they don't seem to like some people, and one of the koalas refused to let me hold her, but they LOOK like they want to be held.
Also at the sanctuary is a group of Kangaroos. That you can feed and pet. I know, it's almost the coolest thing you have heard about today. They aren't quite as soft as a koala, but they have really cute little noses. I spent a good bit of time trying to feed them, but they are fed by so many people everyday it's really a wonder that they are ever hungry at all.
Just look at that nose.
In addition to these guys the sanctuary also has sheep, birds of prey, and almost every other Australian animal you might wish to see. Including all the reptiles. It is like every biologists personal heaven. I was really excited about everything that I saw for days afterwards.
Talk about an epic Saturday.
I have to say that I especially liked the wombat although it was sleeping the whole time, and the Tazmanian devils. We happened to be there right at feeding time and got to see them running round and round their enclosure fighting over their food (which was kangaroo tail - yuck).
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