Hello! This is just a quick catch up post, made at great
expense on the hotel network. Currently, I’m in
Melbourne,
which is one of my favourite cities in the world, and the home of fellow
blogger,
Kek - that’s her in the first pic.
Yesterday she picked me up and we drove around drinking
coffee, eating food (too busy gossiping to even take a food pic! The shame…)
and meeting some of the locals. The locals are cute.
Everyone knows about Koala bears, right? They are the
cutest, and laziest, animal in the world. They also have some mad sleeping
skills and can make the most uncomfortable place look like a double king at the
Hilton.
These guys are at a wildlife park, which I think was called
Healsvale (will amend later if that’s wrong).
While we were there, we had a unique experience with baby
wombats.
This is Florence.
She is a 9 month-old orphaned wombat that has been hand raised and is destined for an
American zoo (I think San Francisco)
when she is grown up. Wombats are prone to traffic accidents because they amble
across highways in a slow and nonchalant fashion. Often they are mothers with a
joey in the pouch that survives. It was
really hot and sunny at that point, so excuse the squinty-eyes look I’m
pulling. Florence looks good
though. She is about a quarter of the full-sized version. Adults weigh about 40kg.
I’ll do a longer post on the travel blog about adventures in
Melbourne, but obviously there has
been food and I’ve been snapping it with the LG. I leave you with…
Chinese Hot Pot
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| You cook your own food in the hot pot. Everything is provided raw. |
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| Tuna roll with suspiciously orange coloured wrap. |
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| Seafood Soup |
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| One of many espressi. Hey, it was a 3 a.m. start... |
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| Self-serve yogurt in many flavours (choc, lemon, green tea). Mine has crumbled Reeces peanut butter cups on it. What an idea! |
I NEED to know the name of that self-serve yoghurt place...so I can hunt down one in my neck of the woods. What an incredibly awesome idea.
ReplyDeleteThe zoo is Healesville Sanctuary (you were soooo close) and if I remember correctly, it's the San Diego zoo the baby wombats are heading off to. Cuteness!
Perhaps we can spot some roos in the wild tomorrow - I saw a big bugger by the side of the road on my way home tonight. I asked him to stay right there; not sure he was feeling cooperative though.
They have a website - www.tfyogurt.com (benefits of food photography, capture something important sometimes..).
ReplyDeleteOH too cute hugging a wombat, do they have soft fur?
ReplyDeleteI have a similar pic with you and Gabriel in Italy
See you soon have a great time in the warm, a bit rainy here today.
Hugs MumXX
Yes, they are so cute and have shiny fur. I think they are like a giant guinea pig - you can imagine that. Weather has been kind of random, today was really hot, but I was in the museum, hanging out with Kerryn, and Phar Lap. x
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