Petting koalas and kangaroos in Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

As we live not too far from Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, a visit to the animal park was evident to do during our summer holidays. Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary opened in 1927 with just two koalas, now they have 130!!. The name Lone Pine, comes from the single pine tree along the Brisbane river, used as location marker for mooring boats that wanted to visit the sanctuary. Since 1990 the sanctuary is world’s first and largest koala sanctuary, it also has an animal hospital and more than 50 000 gum trees to feed the koalas. In 2018, the Brisbane City council opened a Koala Science Institute at Lone Pine. Through joint projects with universities and other research establishments, the institute will be working towards real, practical outcomes for local koala populations.  There are 400 Australian animals including wombats, dingo’s and platypus, and around many koalas. As usual the wombats are sleeping during the day, but we enjoyed the dog sheep show, seeing the rare platypus, petting the kangaroos and being in nature without too many people… as we bought an annual family pass we will certainly return back….