Off again! Picked up a rental and drove around Brisbane's road maze until we found a way out and then headed to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. It was loaded with koalas and kangaroos...just love them both! Also got to see some platypus!! It is such an unique mammal...it lays eggs...uses it bill to find food using lector reception...milks its young through pores...and it is cute! We also witnessed Tasmanian Devils fighting...their ears really do turn red and two tiny horns pop up. Their new born joeys are a size of a grain of rice. They also had a flock of sheep and a well trained sheep dog (looked a lot like our old dog, Shep) who herded the sheep with ease. Then we watched a sheep get sheared. The shearer had a harness sling which made it much easier on his back. In 1990 there were 171 million sheep in Australia...now there are only 70 million....and only 3000 shearers who get paid $2.80 per sheep. The record is 286 sheared in 9 hrs!! That's less than one a minute. Though we'd seen most of the animals we saw today in Sydney ...or home...we never get tired of watching what animals do!
