As soon as Rob got home we went to the National Park for my first bit of wildlife. Within the first 8 minutes of the walk I saw my first wallaby!  I was literally jumping with joy when I saw it was with a joey near by.  

We continued our walk along the edge of the Park and up at the top of the hill there were about 10 wallabies all feeding together.  They paid no attention to us, probably because they’ve seen hundreds of people before but I was still super excited!  

There were so many purple marshens around we began to think they might be a pest of some sort.  On our way to the koala part of the sanctuary I was a pair of lovely scarlet rosella, I could have stared at them for ages if they weren’t constantly flying away.  

To my disappointment we hadn’t seen a single koala yet, but I was happy with what we had seen.  Further along our walk we continued to look for animals, we came to a look out point for ring-tailed possums.  As Rob was gazing around and Sharon was just catching up, I spotted my first koala sleeping in a tree about 20ft away.  Rob was super surprised I had spotted it and so was I!  His ears were so incredibly fluffy and he looked so cute sleeping I wanted to take him home with me.  For the rest of the walk I was in such a good mood after spotting the koala I was content to do whatever.

Leaving the Park Rob took us on a quick detour to see some of the ducks.  It was feeding time so there was hundreds of pacific black duck waddling around eating food.  At the end of the road Robin stopped the car and pointed to the lake, a black swan was swimming close to the shore.  I was overjoyed to see one because of an inside family joke.  Haha I’ve seen a Black Swan!

Black Swan.

Pacific Black Duck.

Trio of Scarlet Rosella

Cape Barren Goose... almost attacked me.

By the time we ate dinner it was 7:45 and I was exhausted.  After writing down all the different birds I had seen I ended up going to bed just before 10, I could barely keep my eyes open as soon as my pajamas were on.  Ii was a very busy but very exciting day!