{"id":26124,"date":"2012-03-16T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/?p=26124"},"modified":"2012-03-16T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:48:38","slug":"that-time-i-held-a-koala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/that-time-i-held-a-koala\/","title":{"rendered":"That Time I Held A Koala"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love zoos. It\u2019s not that I am a particularly big fan of animals in cages, I just love seeing them up close and in person. I believe it stems from my childhood obsession with Kratts<\/em>‘ Creatures<\/em>, a kids TV show about animals and nature.<\/p>\n

So no doubt I would enjoy the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a>, a non for profit, 100% Australian animal sanctuary.<\/p>\n

OZ Vlog #9:<\/span> Contiki Beaches and Reefs : Byron Bay, Australia<\/h2>\n

httpvh:\/\/youtu.be\/ogZ9tMfU4Ew<\/p>\n

The Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary was quite a bit different than the last zoo I went to. For one, most of the cages were open pens so you could walk right up and pet the animals .<\/p>\n

\"Currumbin<\/p>\n

\"Currumbin<\/p>\n

\"Currumbin<\/p>\n

Second, several of the animals I was looking forward to seeing were sleeping, including the Tasmanian Devil and the Wombat.<\/p>\n

Regardless, I got to hold a Koala. It was cute, course haired and kind of stinky, but I held it and it was awesome!<\/p>\n

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Byron Bay<\/h2>\n

After lunch we continued on towards Byron Bay for a quick photo-op at Cape Byron, the most easterly point of Australia.<\/p>\n

\"Cape<\/p>\n

\"Cape<\/p>\n

Then it was afternoon beach time complete with fish\u2019n chips from one of the many cute beachside restaurants.<\/p>\n

\"Byron<\/p>\n

Ah time to work on the tan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A trip to the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary where I got a chance to hold a Koala. Then off to Byron Bay, Australia<\/i> for some relaxing in the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[234,238,496,549,713,763,810,1198,1358,2112,2873,3305],"class_list":["post-26124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania","tag-attractions","tag-australia","tag-byron-bay","tag-cape-byron","tag-contiki","tag-currumbin-wildlife-sanctuary","tag-travel","tag-gold-coast","tag-holding-a-koala","tag-petting","tag-travel-videos","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}