Little Stalky Goes to the Zoo

You've got to love trips to the zoo; especially in Australia where you get to see kangaroos and koalas!  Mystical Roo and I have been to a few wildlife parks and every time I'm drawn to the same animals.  I want to stroke the koalas and feed the roos.  Then I'm happy.  We actually went to Australia Zoo in Queensland where I was actually able to hold a koala and give him a cuddle.  It was amazing!  Here in New South Wales it's illegal to hold koalas like that but we still get to stroke them and look at them.  And smell them.  At the wildlife park in Nowra the koala dude insisted we all take a good whiff of koala.  Smell a koala?  Well, when in Rome...So we all sniffed the koala, who I must say smelt rather lovely.  He had airs of citrus about him mixed with a kind of cigar box smell.  Perhaps the koala had been eating lemons whilst enjoying a smoke.  Who knows.  We also got to hold a snake on that day, which was most excellent.  Rabby and I had our photo taken whilst Bear Z watched on in horror.  Snakes aren't everyone's cup of tea.  Mystical Roo is ok with snakes.  In fact, one tried to stowaway in his rucksack!  I think they'd made friends.  After cooing over the koalas I love to go and see the kangaroos.  They're seen as a kind of pest over here but I think they're adorable.  And so friendly!  Or pushy, in some cases.  They bounce straight on over and start looking at you with wide eyes in the hope of food.  One of them had a kind of yokel look on his face, with a strange jaw and sticky out teeth.  We didn't want to be rude but we had to put his food on the floor.  I think if he'd taken it from our hands he would have left teeth marks!  At one point Bear Z found herself surrounded by what can only be describes as a throng of roos.  She was thus named Queen of the Roos.  Some of them get a bit impatient with you and one roo, who shall not be named, actually nicked off with a whole bag of feed.  Greedy little bugger.  But still cute.  You can't stay mad at something so cute.