As we mentioned a couple of weeks back it is an offence in New South Wales (and almost all other territories) to hold a Koala. However, the exception to this rule is in Queensland where the first and largest Koala sanctuary was founded in the 1920's to protect the endagered species. There are now over 130 koala's living there so the government has given dispensation for koala's to be held, and brilliantly, they have worked out an exact time that the marsupials can be cuddled for: 30 minutes a day.
As if cuddling Koalas wasn't amazing enough you can also just walk around the park hugging and feeding random kangaroos. They are so tame that toddlers are hanging off their necks and mauling them and they don't bat an eyelid. One bolshy french teenager did shove a camera in one of the kangaroo's faces and it jumped up and kicked him, which was an amazing moment - unfortunately i couldn't get the camera out in time to film it.
While we were having our dinner a lizard (pictured above) actually dropped out of a tree onto the ground next to us. Lone Point then, full points for cuddling animals, nil points for health & safety.
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