LONE PINE KOALA SANCTUARY
Lone Pine is the largest Koala Sanctuary in
Australia and we will be visiting there today.
Lone Pine consumed our whole day and Ipod
was once again out of battery due to all the shooting.
There were also koalas in Taiwan but most of
them were isolated inside thick glass windows and air conditioned the whole
day. Comparing to the ones in Lone Pine, they really lived a life like the
royals. However, I found the ones in Lone Pine much more happy-looking and they
lived under a natural habitat, which I guessed was just perfect for them. Lone
Pine built home for the koalas with branches and each space contained about 5
to six koalas. There were many of those spaces around in the sanctuary,
basically everywhere! And all koalas do are eating or sleeping or resting and
jumping from trees to trees. (actually, they are extremely fast on their feet,
when they’re not sleepy )
Lone Pine was located in the mountains and
seemed pretty deserted, a total natural habitat. The entrance fee will be 24
each, cheaper than the zoo or aquarium back in Sydney, yay! We found it huge in
the sanctuary and separated into many smaller ones according to the types of
animals. We made a promise to cover the whole park!
A bunch of Australian parrots greeted us at
the entrance and most hooted out loud, some even scared the little kids who
came with their teachers. Following up was the platypus section and they were
really cute swimming around with their big fat tail paddling in the water.
There were also dingoes and Tasmanian Devils sleeping soundly under the
sunshine.
It’s not only mammals do they breed here but
also special species of reptiles, tortoises and wombats! They were extremely
adorable with their round body and dorky behaviors. It was said on the tour
guide that they have really strong bottoms and when invaders enter their
underground tunnel, they will use their bottoms to bang the intruders against
the wall until they pass out HAHA.（
We also participated in the sheep shaving
show which was a tradition here in the park, it was a bit unfortunate that we
missed the eagle show.
Just by the barn was a big piece of open
field and kangaroos were crowded or hopping in there. We approached one of the
reds cautiously and Roxie got out her courage and touched it on the back. It
closed its eyes and seemed to be enjoying the caress. When it was my time, I
was really worried that it might swing me hard with its strong tail and fortunately
that didn’t happen. It lied still and we took photos with the kangaroo.
There were wallabies and many more kangaroos
hopping around on the field and we spent about 2 whole hours chasing up these
guys and taking pictures with them. Most of them were really tame but few shy
ones jump away as soon as someone got too close to their territories.
On the opposite side of the kangaroos were
more wombats and emus. I’ve only heard of those big birds in the books and now
I got to see them for
myself, amazing!
At last we sat down at the canteen and ate
some of the crackers we brought, only to see many koalas surrounding the
cafeteria… we tried capturing the moment of their leap and got some pretty good
shots. And my Ipod dropped dead after that.
It’s only 6.7AUD per person for a ride back
to the CBD but it’s about an hour wait at the bus station and we arrived at the
centre another hour later.
I had a sub sandwich at Red Rooster and
Roxie had some tri-colored fried rice.
The visit to Lone Pine was perfect today and
certainly raised the position of Brisbane in our hearts, pulling down Melbourne
which is now ranking the last place.
Thank you Roxie for the wombat key ring you
gave me today, I like it very much: )
As for our photos in the Ipod, we had taken the
amount of 6100 since we arrived at Australia. But we deleted about 400 shots of
blurred and repeated koala/kangaroo photos when we got back to Chills.
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