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Koala Love

3/27/2012

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One of my very best friends Ben lives overseas. It kinda sucks, because I miss him, but it does give us a reason to drop everything and go to hang out with koalas when he is in the country on a two week whiparound trip.
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We are lucky enough to have not one but two great wildlife parks within a 40 minute drive of our place. You heard about the reptile park (where we took the Swiss woofers last week) on the blog already, and yesterday it was the Walkabout Park that we explored with Ben and his mate Brenton fresh from Toronto, Canada. They were hoping to see koalas, and well, we got up and personal with these little cuties fo sho! The great thing about the Walkabout Wildlife Park at Calga is the animals are pretty much free range (except the really bitey ones) so you actually get to 'hang out' with them.....we patted koalas, kangaroos and emu and a curious little grey kanga even tried to join us for lunch!
Flex and Lucky threw boomerangs, played with the 'pet' rainbow lorikeets and got in trouble for picking up a turtle who was wandering between waterholes. We went for a walk on a twisty bush track and examined stringy bark rope, scribbly gumtree art and Aboriginal rock carvings as well as a cave full of ancient handprints. We sat on a rock at a traditional 'men's site' (we were a very manly bunch after all ;) overlooking the vast green scrub and chatted. Brenton is doing a PhD on the cost of every school 'failure/repetition' in Canada, and was extremely interested in home schooling  so we had lots of stuff to discuss! It started to rain softly and was very beautiful. We could smell the eucalyptus and tea tree in the atmosphere as the Australian bush gifted us with a moment of sacredness.
After distributing the 'suitcase full of Canadian candy' and lots of big hugs, 'Benton' were on their merry way and we drove home eating Oh Henry bars and Cheezies. Oh Canada!

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