Last Full Day at the Sanctuary.

The morning was fairly slow, which I was thankful for because I needed it.  Did not take me long to recover though before I was off helping with tours and spotting koalas. 

Dave had me raking the entire front yard; we have a very big yard.  I would say I did a very good job the considering that I didn’t want to wear shoes and the sun made the ground very hot.  While I was doing this and dancing to my music, Michaela was unloading hay from a trailer for Dave’s garden project.  I was just casually dancing to a remix when I hear Michaela yell “there’s a dead cat in here!” I run over to a mummified cat sticking out of the hay.  I run in side and yell at Dave to come see it,  he has a fascination with the island cats and this one is no exception.  Michaela lifts it up with her pitchfork and punctures through its hip doing so.  I was so incredibly grossed out and I seemed to be the only one.  Michaela made a nasty comment about if she would find a dead litter of kittens in the hay pile as well, my only words were “ew, ew, ew, ew, that is so gross!” she only laughed at me.  No other dead animals were found that day, thankfully only live ones.

The nasty dead cat.

Our day wasn’t over yet, the Organic Tree Farm still needs to be cleaned and organized.  It wasn’t anything special; just empting out pots of dried dirt with dead plants in them.  We did find two tree frogs, a larger spider with eggs and a centipede.  To Dave’s joy we did get to plant some eucalyptus seeds, he is very excited to see the garden start again.

Centipede 

Big spider with bigger egg pouch.

At home I patiently waited for my laundry to dry, it seemed to take forever even in the hot sun and wind.  I wasn’t going to wait around for it though; Michaela and I decided to go for another bike ride, this time it was only around the enclosure. Much less painful for our bums; we practically stood the whole time so our legs ached instead.  Right after getting out of the shower Cat told me that a joey koala had fallen out of a 25ft tree and the mother was not taking it back.  He was too young to climb the tree and a mother koala will never climb down to retrieve her young; it’s really sad.  Claire ended up taking it back with her because there was no way it would survive the night without mom.

I started on our last family dinner together when Michaela got home.  I pulled out all the vegetables in the fridge and fried them up in a big pot for stir-fry.  Nina made the rice and Dave barbequed lamb chops.  Dinner was very successful when we sat down at nine to eat it.  There were several different sauces and dressing we all put on our food; my favorite was BBQ sauce and hot tomato chutney.

We are all sad to be leaving the sanctuary tomorrow.