Every morning we wake up and play "spot the koala" in the trees around Mum's house. They are nocturnal but move in the day sometimes and seem to mysteriously hop from trees in the dawn and dusk. We see one and then 10 minutes later it has vanished but I have never seen one on the ground.
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| Frost with a Koala in Mum's Garden |
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| The Closest Koala to the house |
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| A little Zoom goes a long way |
On the second day we were in Adelaide, Mum found a dead koala on the road during her morning walk. She said it was too big for her to move off the road. She reported it to the council and it was taken away.
Despite signs to warn drivers to go slowly to avoid hitting koala's, especially at night, there are many koala killed on the roads.
At Cleland Wildlife Sanctuary we lined up for 20 minutes in the rain to have a chance to stroke a koala. The fur is surprisingly soft and warm - not coarse as I had expected. Whether or not you have them in the garden, they are iconic animals and tourists love to see and be seen with them.
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| The Cleland koala monument |
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| Wren at Cleland with the captive koala whom he stroked. |
Driving down from Cleland through the mist Mum spotted another wild koala in the top of a gum tree. The tree was growing on a steep slope below the road so the koala was swaying the mist, not too high above eye level. Mum is the master koala spotter and sees them all over the place.
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