the hunt for the koala

I cannot tell you how often we looked in the trees for koala bears; well, I seemed to be scouting the dark forests of eucalyptus while Storey drove. We determined that it's a myth for tourists. On our last full day in Australia, we visited the Daisy Hill Koala Park. We saw one koala and it was in the visitors' centre. We took a walk through the park and didn't see one sleepy bear the entire time!

So, we came up with a theory that the one koala they have and the few others that hang out in the zoos and wildlife centers are actually wombats with plastic surgery. They put the wombat in a tree at the visitor's centre so that there is hope of seeing one in the 'wild' and then market part of their Australian tourism campaign around this mythical creature. That's what we came up with.