Travel By Photo – 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.
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.
These are the more energetic group of young koala playing on the man-made ‘playground’.
BEWARE OF YOUR FINGERS! The sanctuary is actually huge with so many ‘don’t-know-the-name’ wildlives ‘walking’ around….
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…’
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.
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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- August 29, 2008I love the bears!! Great photos, thank you!
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- August 30, 2008Some great photos. The photographed large bird is an emu, which is half the Australian coat of arms, along with the kangaroo. They are meant to be two of the only animals on Earth that cannot go backwards and hence the symbolism.
$15 is a lot to cuddle a koala, though many places in Australia have stopped this element as it apparently seriously stresses the koalas, being removed from their trees.
- August 30, 2008Mark, thanks for your information for the emu and sorry for my innocence. Wow, you mean the emu cannot go backwards? It’s really amazing! $15 is to cuddle a koala and take a digital photo home and yes, I think it’s quit a lot. 🙂
- August 30, 2008