On Saturday Angela from work took me to the Featherdale Wildlife Park. It
was nice. This park is more Australian native animal centered and is smaller I
think but in a good way. The ticket you get issued is a passport that you get
to stamp at each station…yep I stamped each one and was downright giddy about
it…yes I am 28. The big claim to fame is that a person can get their picture
taken with a koala for free. Oh and they also have Archer the koala who is Australia's cutest animal per a recent poll. For me the big deal was that they have tons of
wombats and they were awake!!! I got to pet a wombat and was pretty excited
about that so excited that I ignored the sign that said “we bite” above the
enclosure…oops! They are so cute. I don’t think they bite really….
Wombat!!
We mingled with the wallabies for feeding time. There were
lots of joeys hopping around as well. We checked out the pelicans on the way to
the koalas.Then we visited the koalas. They have 35 koalas
plus another 8 joeys still in pouches. Koalas are so lazy…Actually do you know
why they sleep all the time? They only eat the eucalyptus leaves and they
provide little energy. I’m not sure if I mentioned that before or not. Then we
got in line for our photos.
After that we went and saw more wombats!!!! There are three
species altogether. We saw echidnas which are weird animals. Then we went and
looked at the emus, dingoes, crocodile, all kinds of birds, and the kangaroos.
They had some larger kangaroos there which was neat. Oh and I finally got to
see the Quokkas and Bilbies. Those were two things I hadn’t seen yet. Actually
before coming here I hadn’t even heard of them. We were there about 2.5 hours.
It was nice. After that we went for lunch at the Westpoint mall and I did some
window shopping.
Meanwhile in the dead of winter in Sydney Australia....
On Sunday, I finally crossed something off my list again:
Bondi Beach. It is a little tricky to get there and I am lazy so I hadn’t made
the journey before. It is actually pretty famous and the walk from Bondi to Coogee
is well known. Everyone kept telling me to go there but since when do I listen
to other people? Per the norm, this was well worth it! Actually it was one of
the more beautiful sights I have seen here and there are many.
I took a train from here to Town Hall (I’ll skip the part
where I got on the wrong train) and then another train from Town Hall to Bondi
Junction. From there I caught a very very full bus. Surfboards are awkward on
the bus. I got off when I could see the beach and the walkway was pretty much
right there. There were many people there but it was a beautiful day so I could
see why. The shore line was really nice. Once I reached the end I walked back
to Bondi Beach itself. There were a lot of surfers in the water but the waves
were not very good so not too many were actually surfing. Lots of people on the
beach. There was wonderful street art on the wall behind the beach and at the
skatepark which was an emptied pool I think. There were even some artists
working on their pieces. And such a range of work! Amazing. Best graffiti I
have seen in Sydney so far.
And that was my weekend!
Oh yeah and something I forgot from last blog was that on the train to Canberra there were many kangaroos hopping in the fields which I thought was neat. Still seems unreal though. Kind of like reindeer in Norway...
