06.10.2018

06.10.2018 4days at billabong sanctuary

                          New things

My throat now is just a constant itch so I am having a light cough. However I figured out one reason that made me sick. Last night I woke up freezing because my bed is in direct line of the air conditioning which runs extra powerfull in the night. So I am gonna try to move my bed around a bit.

In the Car I talked to Ranger kim that I kind of did the same things since 3days and she got me into a different part. 👍

I still started with raking but this time I had to do some bird enclosures. One of them had a green parrot that was raised by hand. Meaning he was very friendly and again didnt take long to land on my shoulder. I really like the birds here, they are so much nicer then the ones at lone pine.

Next up we cleaned the dingo enclosure. I am more of a cat than a dog person but I love these dingos, they are so fluffy, friendly and curious. They are completly quiet and dont bark at all. Of course this is only because they have been raised in captivity. 

Then I returned to food preperation. I met volunteer Saskia, she's from norwegian and also half dutch. I was working with her mostly for the rest of the day. During "morning tea" I preordered a little something for lunch. 

We cleaned the chicken cage, the chickens are not on display since their only purpose is crocodile food. So they are very scared whenever a human enters their cage.

 After that we did some more bird enclosures. The little rainbow lorikeet jumped on my shoulder again and enjoyed my hat. 

At lunch we got the sandwiches from the cafeteria and also one more plate with an australian beef burger baaaabyy! It was 9.50 and for staff members 8.50 so its not really a big difference and I am probably not going to spend that amount of money every day. But it was nice for once also everyone at lunch was very jealous.

I did some dishes and was able to change the leaves in the koala enclosures. Something that would have been impossible at lone pine. I could just climb into the enclosure next to the koalas take their leaves out, give them a little pat and put some new ones in.

It continued with the turtle feeding. There are a bunch of wild turtels at billabong sanctuary. We feed them with pieces of fish and also give some pieces to the visitors, not to eat but to also feed the turtels. Then we do the "turtle race", two turtels are catched from the lake and brought to a line. Then there are 2 groups made with the visitors. Each group can name their turtle and then they are both released at 1...2...3! Which turtle makes it back to the water first that group wins. 

We named our turtle rainbow dash and she had to run against Kiki. The turtels were released and rainbow dash sprinted forward with impressive speed but came completly off course. She made it to the water first but sadly got disqualified.

Towards the end I was able to bring Ash in again. Today it was already a little more difficult. She "fake" bit me a few times and didnt want to get on. She seemed to not have a good day or maybe it was my hat. However after some time she climbed on. 

I did the dishes, fed the kangaroos and then Kim brought me back to the hostel. 

I went to the empire arcade again played a few free games and then back towards the late evening. It was a fun day today.