Some fancy Lorikeets

The Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

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May 14th 2008
Yesterday I went to the Sanctuary. What an amazing experience. This koala sanctuary hosts 130 koalas and is the biggest in all of Australia. It's located a little ways out of Brisbane and is a very natural setting. They have a kangaroo/wallaby reserve where the kangaroos and wallabies roam free and you can walk in and chill with them. Since they are pretty tame you can feed them, pet them, sit ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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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