Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

Yesterday I went to the Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane with five or six other international kids. It was a really cool place, they had a bunch of neat animals that you could see really close up. There were fruit bats, lots of birds (kookaburra, lorrakeet, wild turkeys, emu...), a ton of koalas (200 in the whole place i think?), kangaroos, wallabies, crocodiles, snakes, and some other cool animals. We couldn't find the echidna or tasmanian devil, but they had spots there too. The koalas were so freakin' cute! They had different habitats for each group, like 'moms and kids' with the joey still living in the mom's pouch, the females that were going to have kids, the 'retirement home' for the older koalas (some were over 20 years old), 'kindergarten' for the young ones, and there was even a bachelor pad for this one guy koala by himself. I guess he doesn't get along with the others. The coolest part of the day was that you got to hug a koala and feed the kangaroos there. The Australians think its funny how people get really excited about the kangaroos, because they are like deer are in the US. People wake up with kangaroos in their backyards, they are everywhere. A guy also told me how people go 'spotlighting' kangaroos here too (shine big lights at them from a truck and then shoot them - like some deer hunters in the US), because they eat crops and are sorta a pest animal. But they were just chillen at the sanctuary and it was definitely cool to hang out with the kangaroos. Here are some pictures from lone pine.