This morning we set off into the national park and followed the coastal path on foot as far as Dolphin Point, which is where the stroller access runs out and people with kids have to turn around.
After many attempts at spotting koalas in the wild, we finally found one today, sleeping peacefully in the fork of a gum tree, as you'd expect. Perhaps one day I'll have time to tell you about our ill-fated koala spotting trip to Lemon Tree Passage some years ago, when it poured with rain and the local shop had only one emergency poncho left. Suffice to say we didn't spot a single sodding koala and Darren had to drive back to Port Stephens in his knickers, so you'll understand why we were so excited to finally spot one.
Anyway, there are only 100,000 koalas left in the wild and they sleep for eighteen hours a day, which does tend to earn them the nickname lazy bastard.
"It's never fair dinkum" commented a passing Australian when he saw us looking up into the tree. "Probably a stuffed one, been put there for the tourists".
nb Fair Dinkum, adj, Genuine, (Australian Collq.). See aso Dinky Di.
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