Travel By Photo – Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

lone-pine koala sanctuary

First of all, thanks for your participation in commenting and reading my last post about one little travel quiz: Where in the world the photo was shot? I’m now announcing the Winner: MARK H !!!! …. Uhmmm…. Not exactly the correct answer but it’s very close to it, at least it is the correct part of the world, Queensland, Australia.

The actual answer for the quiz and our travel destination for today is: Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane. Lone Pine is actually famous for its world’s first and largest Koala bear sanctuary since 1927. Lorikeet feeding is only part of the wildlife activities you can have there everyday at 10am and 3pm. Visitors are coming as a day trip from Gold Coast or Brisbane (Lone Pine location map).

You can experience the life with the Aussie wildlife in the sanctuary such as feeding the colourful Lorikeet, holding a snake, cuddling a koala, watching the sheep dog show, hand feeding the Kangaroo, listening to the laugh of Kookaburra bird, feeding the don’t know what kind of turkey and many more.

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Hey! Feeding the Koala without permission is prohibited. 🙁

          There are over 130 koalas in the sanctuary, either it’s the northern or southern koala. They look sleepy to me…but cuddling one is definitely nice.

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These are the more energetic group of young koala playing on the man-made ‘playground’.

Don't know what turkey

BEWARE OF YOUR FINGERS! The sanctuary is actually huge with so many ‘don’t-know-the-name’ wildlives ‘walking’ around….

Kangaroo feeding     Kangaroo sanctuary is another attractive feature of Lone Pine as it’s the trademark for Aussie! ‘Come on baby, let me feed you a little nectar…’

Lorikeet Feeding Finally there’re the colourful Rainbow Lorikeet’s I showed you in the quiz before. Lorikeet is part of the parrot’s family and is beat known for its distinctive loud screech and green, blue, yellow and red feathers. They usually live in groups and can fly for long distances at great speeds in search of food. In summer, you will also see lorikeets taking a bath at Lone Pine’s water fountain.

Rainbow Lorikeet

You could also notice all sorts of different bird species that pay a visit to Lone Pine beautiful natural surroundings. Open daily from 8:30am to 5:00pm, you need to pay AUD22.00 (AUD17 for children) for visiting Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary (special koala cuddling photo not included which shall cost AUD15.00). “Wow! Not cheap mate!” “SHHHHH….. don’t shout, you will scare off the habitants…” For me, I think for a whole day trip at Lone Pine, capturing so many Aussie wildlives especially koala and kangaroo, the price is reasonable. If you like this story, you may subscribe to Travel Feeder’s RSS Feed for FREE updates – Travel Feeder.

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