Saturday, October 25

Went to Caversham Wildlife Park and took about 250 photos! Amazing to be able to get right up to the koalas and pet them, and to walk around with a bunch of kangaroos. We'd never even seen a wombat before, but got our picture with one, and this was the first time we'd ever seen tasmanian devils that were not sleeping. It was feeding time just as we were leaving and the devils had a tug of war over the meat that was thrown to them. Noisy little buggers.

They had a very interesting farm show, where they demonstrated how the sheep hearding dogs work, and then they sheared a sheep. The guy doing the narrating invited everyone to come down and rub their hands on the newly sheared sheep, to get the lanolin which can then be rubbed all over your skin for a smooth, silky feel. He then admitted that you'll stink like a sheep but your skin will be very soft. After the show Bill chatted with the narrator for a while as I waited in line to try milking a cow, pretty easy but I imagine your hands would get tired awfully fast.

When we were in with the kangaroos, a woman actually laid down with one of them to have her picture taken, and lets just say she was wearing kangaroo poo on her clothes for the rest of the day, cause it was all over the ground. Bill was concerned they might smell it on his breath, since he'd just had a "skippy burger" before going into the park. He couldn't decide between the kangaroo burger and the emu burger, but liked the sound of the skippy burger.

Before leaving the park, I filled out a volunteer form, so maybe they'll call me and I can work there, probably cleaning up some of that kangaroo poo.