hug a koala

I’ve read that koalas are really easily scared, and that they can have a heart attack when you try to hug them! Is that true?

That’s one of the main reasons why I want to go to Australia. I just LOOOVE koala bears (I said in my tattoo entry that I wanted to get a koala bear tattoo on my hip), and I have koalas on my computer. I love them, they’re so cute, and I want to hug one, I bet they’re really soft and fuzzy.

For years. I need to get to Australia first, but I guess I’ll have to wait some time for this to happen.

And, it pooped on me! Bonus!

Lone Pine Park, Queensland http://www.koala.net.au/index.htm
I have the photo of father as a child and my own as a child, we look identical ;-)
I visited again last time I went home.

I did it about a year ago at the Lone Pine Sanctuary in Australia. Hugging the koala itself was wonderful. It cost about $10 for 10 seconds and it was worth it despite the rip-offness.

My son and I went to Australia, and we had the opportunity to cuddle with a koala named Vegemite at Cleland Wildlife Park in Adelaide. He was a lot heavier than I expected him to be, and his fur was very thick and surprisingly soft. And yeah, very cuddly. It was great.

I held, hugged, and fed a koala a few years ago. It’s claws dug into me, it was heavy, and it smelled! But still – I love saying that I have done these things!

they look so furry and huggable.
who doesn’t want to hug a koala??!