DAISY 2/10/2014
HI all,
Well I am going to tell you a story about a very feisty young female koala that first came to HKPS's attention on Tuesday afternoon when a lady saw her up a big swampy on the medium strip outside KFC and just short of the roundabout.
The dynamic duo of Fran and Beca (I want to be like them one day!) attended and set up camp and waited the (at that time) unknown koala out, as it was way to high to get at and of course the traffic being a holiday was fairly non stop. Some luvly people gave them sustenance and when Jacqui and OCD arrived to see how they were getting on they even shared their chips with a very hungry OCD!
Fran and Rebecca stayed for ages and later Doug and June took over but in the late night it was decided to call it quits and see if it was still there in the morning. Again great work Fran and Rebecca and then Doug and June, not only was it a noisy busy place to watch a sleeping koala but they all suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes... idiot comments by both local and holiday makers among those not fully compos mentus!
So the following day around 5 pm Simone got a call from Lyn, a lady who had been instrumental in the rescue of 'Buster', named by her daughter, and who remembered our phone number. She was with a small koala in an even smaller palm tree right opposite the other entrance to KFC (do koalas get a discount?).
Simone dispatched OCD and set of herself as well. When OCD (I) got to the roundabout there was the usual helpers and concerned onlookers and John Evens. John and I rescued a very feisty young lady from the palm tree and she tried to get out of the basket continuously, even trying to dig her way out, swiping at any thing that came near her.
Fran agreed to micro chip the young lady, so off I went to Fran's while all the time the young lady tried her hardest to escape!. Of course as soon as Fran and Rebecca weighed her and got her some leaf she was doing a possum act and 'no koala here', Fran micro chipped her and took pics of her but she constantly gave me the 100 meter stare, how I never turned to stone I don't know!!
I returned to Corlette, picked up Jacqui and we went to Worimi Drive and found a great big swampy that Sim had previously picked out. Basket at the foot of the tree, Jacqui with torch light, basket open right at base of tree... NO! swipe at me with claws, screechy growl and hoppde out and run down embankment and up another swampy which we had disregarded as it didn't look as nice as the one we had picked!! women... lol.
Below some pics Fran and Rebecca took of the now chipped and named 'DAISY' who we think is about 2 yrs old and around four and a half kilos, she is very very cute!
OCD Frankie (& Jacqui)
Well I am going to tell you a story about a very feisty young female koala that first came to HKPS's attention on Tuesday afternoon when a lady saw her up a big swampy on the medium strip outside KFC and just short of the roundabout.
The dynamic duo of Fran and Beca (I want to be like them one day!) attended and set up camp and waited the (at that time) unknown koala out, as it was way to high to get at and of course the traffic being a holiday was fairly non stop. Some luvly people gave them sustenance and when Jacqui and OCD arrived to see how they were getting on they even shared their chips with a very hungry OCD!
Fran and Rebecca stayed for ages and later Doug and June took over but in the late night it was decided to call it quits and see if it was still there in the morning. Again great work Fran and Rebecca and then Doug and June, not only was it a noisy busy place to watch a sleeping koala but they all suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes... idiot comments by both local and holiday makers among those not fully compos mentus!
So the following day around 5 pm Simone got a call from Lyn, a lady who had been instrumental in the rescue of 'Buster', named by her daughter, and who remembered our phone number. She was with a small koala in an even smaller palm tree right opposite the other entrance to KFC (do koalas get a discount?).
Simone dispatched OCD and set of herself as well. When OCD (I) got to the roundabout there was the usual helpers and concerned onlookers and John Evens. John and I rescued a very feisty young lady from the palm tree and she tried to get out of the basket continuously, even trying to dig her way out, swiping at any thing that came near her.
Fran agreed to micro chip the young lady, so off I went to Fran's while all the time the young lady tried her hardest to escape!. Of course as soon as Fran and Rebecca weighed her and got her some leaf she was doing a possum act and 'no koala here', Fran micro chipped her and took pics of her but she constantly gave me the 100 meter stare, how I never turned to stone I don't know!!
I returned to Corlette, picked up Jacqui and we went to Worimi Drive and found a great big swampy that Sim had previously picked out. Basket at the foot of the tree, Jacqui with torch light, basket open right at base of tree... NO! swipe at me with claws, screechy growl and hoppde out and run down embankment and up another swampy which we had disregarded as it didn't look as nice as the one we had picked!! women... lol.
Below some pics Fran and Rebecca took of the now chipped and named 'DAISY' who we think is about 2 yrs old and around four and a half kilos, she is very very cute!
OCD Frankie (& Jacqui)