Bart Bear's Blog

Mum says that I am related to Koalas. As we are not sure of just what sort of bear I am, she is probably right (mums usually are). Now, Hamilton Island has a small zoo and in that zoo lives a colony of koalas. You can actually have breakfast with the koalas while you are on the island. Not only that, you can cuddle one and have your picture taken with it. We had brekkie there a couple of times and of course we had to get a family picture with one of the rellies. I wanted to hold the koala but it turns out that they are bigger than the average small bear so Mum held him. He must have liked Mum as much as I do because he snuggled up and went to sleep. Now I have to say that these koala types are not what you would call hyperactive. Most of the time they just hang around in trees, wedged into a fork so they won't fall out, and either eat or sleep. Most of the time they sleep. That makes them hard to spot when they are out in the forest. I actually saw some of them move while we were having breakfast one time. It wasn't much of a move, just across to a different bunch of leaves and another branch to sit on, then a mouthfull and back to sleep. Hmmm, eat and sleep, maybe Dad is related to koalas too.

Labels: animals, Hamilton Is, Queensland