with Skippy

Kangaroos and koalas!!!!!!!

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December 17th 2005
So I fulfilled my requirement as a tourist here when Alf took Karen and I to Symbio Wildlife Refuge, south of Sydney in Wollongong. And can we just say that I loved every second of it!!!!!!!! We won't mind that everyone else there was with little kids; I guess I'm just a kid at heart who eats this stuff up! Didn't get to hold a koala but got to hang out with the kangaroos so I cannot complain. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Wollongong

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more