Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Plague!
I HAVE lost count of the hours I have traipsed through the bush, head in air, searching for koalas. And in koala 'hot spots'. (A koala hot spot is an area where there is at least one koala per hectare; ie that is one in every square block, 100m X 100m.)

It was ironic then that the first (wild) one we saw had made its home in suburbia; in Lawnton.

However, it is still pretty special to then see, not one, but two, at home, in the bush. These two – almost a plague - were in Daisy Hill Koala Centre, to the south east of Brisbane in Redlands, a 70-hectare reserve of bushland in one of the few areas in South East Queensland where koalas are still relatively prevalent.

That said, I had walked this reserve at least half a dozen times, and not seen a bean. I was beginning to think the whole thing was a hoax. There were so many (well, two) that next time I was thinking of taking a hard hat.

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