A Trip to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

We rented a car yesterday for some chores and to explore further afield. We first got a new outboard motor. We got a good price on the old 3.5 HP mercury which I never liked and was always troublsome and traded it in for a new 5 HP Yamaha. Every place we went in the Pacific, 95% of the outboards where Yamaha's and everyone loved them. So with such a larger dealer and parts network and super reputation, what else would you get? Your dinghy is like your car at home, you use it to go everywhere. We row when we can unless it is to far or strong currents and wind.

After that errand we drove to the Koala Sanctuary and paid the entrance fee which was a bit steep, but there turned out to be a lot more here than we thought. There were animals here from the bears to kangaroos, tasmanian devils, dingo's and lots of birds. A lot of the animals were in their natural enviroment and could come and go as they pleased. We had planned to go to another park afterwards to go for a hike, but we spent all our time here at the sanctuary. As we were driving back to the boat there was another thunderstorm warning put out on the radio. Soon the sky was black and then lightening and then it poured buckets, I pulled the car over until the rain slowed down. Later we heard on the radio, 3 people had been killed, at least one was a motorcycle accident. A few miles away they had hail the size of oranges and cars were damaged and had broken windows. The traffic was stop and go most of the way back to the boat. We got in just before dark, glad we don't have to do much driving any more.