Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

So, I decided to do something touristy today. I went to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary to have a closer look at some of the wildlife that this country is known for. There's a boat which leaves the city and brings visitors right to the park. Along the way, we passed a VERY large colony of the flying foxes I was telling you about before. There are many thousands of them roosting in the trees right off the river:

There are also some quite beautiful houses:

About the most interesting place to live I've seen so far is this cluster of bridges:

There are a total of 4 bridges in this photo, all right next to one another. The closest one, the cable-stay bridge, is a pedestrian bridge. There are 2 trestle bridges, both for trains, in the center. The furthest bridge in the picture, is a suspension bridge. The thing you'll notice are the support towers:

That's right...there are apartments INSIDE those towers!

After about an hour ride, we arrived at the sanctuary:

They have a large population of koalas. In fact, the sanctuary is the largest of it's kind. It was also the first of it's kind. Here's a koala now:

Another one in a funny sleeping position:

Also, this is one of the parks in Australia at which you can actually hold koalas. Here's me:

This is my colleague Toto, and his wife, Michelle:

They also have quite an assortment of other animals at this park. The coolest thing is their kangaroo and wallaby enclosure, where you can just walk up and feed the animals right from your hands:

Most of the ones here are the grey kangaroos:

There are also a couple of different wallabies you can interact with. This one seems to be called a swamp wallaby:

There's also this grey guy who seems to be pretty comfortable:

The wallabies are significantly smaller then the grey kangaroos, but are part of the same family.

Now, the red kangaroos are in a separated paddock. This is because they can get to be 2 meters tall, and, thus, are almost twice the size of the greys.