Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

After a busy few weeks and a lot of rain we finally got a couple of consecutive days of pleasant weather. On Sunday we took advantage of the nice day, about 33 degrees, and decided to tackle traffic in downtown Brisbane to go to Lone Pine Koala Sancuary.

 

 

We went to a presentation on the platypus but, because it was in the dark, we weren't able to obtain any photographs.

 A kookaburra

 

 Checking out the koalas. There were about 130 at the sanctuary and each "demographic" had their own living quarters including a kindergaryen. a club house and a retirement home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A stare-off with a brightly coloured cassowary; a very aggressive bird.

No, this is not an enclosure for a teddy bear but the bear is a toy for the wombat keeping out of the hot sun in the concrete culvert to the right.......asleep on his back

 

Pluto, a collie with natural herding instincts, shows off to the crowd. The handler hardly had to do a thing!  These sheepdogs were used on almost all Australian sheep farms.

 

 

 

And now it's time for a haircut.

 

 

 

 

Nancy and Rusty, who works the sheep in the pens by running on the backs of the sheep.

We went to raptor show which was very entertaining

 

 A pure bred dingo.

 

 The reptile show.

 

 Into the Kangarro ( and emu ) reserve we go.

 

 

 

 Look at the little joey. It doesn't even have fur yet!

A bearded dragon - these were sll over the park sunning on the paths.