Marsupial Park

The morning before I left we visited a small wildlife park which housed Australia's favourite marsupials. It was the koalas at close range that I was particularly interested in as I hadn't had this experience before. Koala is an aboriginal word meaning does not drink. They rarely come down from the Gum Trees and obtain their water from the leaves they eat. If they are found on the ground or drinking it normally means they are ill. They spend much of the day and night sleeping, about 20 hours of the 24 hours and they sleep this amount of time because the Eucalyptus leaves do not provide the amount of nutrients necessary to give them any energy. The young, like kangarooos, are called joeys. They stay inside the mother until a month old and then make the long journey to the pouch, which in the koala has a central opening. The joey stays in the pouch for about another 6 months where it develops. Koalas have five digits on each hand, two opposing thumbs and three fingers, all lethal looking with very long sharp claws which help with climbing and clinging on to branches. They were lovely animals and I enjoyed the opportunities to see them up close and to touch them.
This concluded my time in Turramurra and it was back off to Sydney on the train. I had planned to have a final look at Sydney before my flight back to Perth, but when I arrived in the City I somehow managed to get off the train at an alien part of the city station, then I couldn't find the lockers to store my bag and then finally, it started to pour with rain. So...I decided to get straight back on the train and go to the domestic airport, have something to eat and wait for the plane!!