Rainbow Designs

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….when you walk out your front door and see a koala sitting in the gum tree next to your garbage bins! So sweet. He’s (or she’s) so low I could reach out and pat him but the size of his claws are a bit of a deterrent plus I don’t want to disturb his slumber!

Koala

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Jenni said, November 15th, 2007 at 5:03 pm

Aaaw, Jacqui, so gorgeous! Don’t you just love Australian animals.

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Michelle said, November 15th, 2007 at 6:25 pm

No way - really? I have never seen a koala unless I was visiting a koala reserve but I remember as a child always looking up in the trees hoping to catch sight of one.

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Nicole said, November 16th, 2007 at 5:11 pm

WOW!!! He/She is gorgeous! Seeing that photo reminds me of a time where Nick and I stayed at a B&B in Adelaide Hills. They had a mum and her bub sleeping in the tree just out their front door and they were there the whole 3 days we were. Enjoy!

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Nicole said, December 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 am

Hey Jacqui, is your friend still in your tree?

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Jacqui said, December 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm

She’s wandered off now, I do keep checking the tree though :-)

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A Modern Goddess Online » Calling all Animal Lovers said, January 25th, 2008 at 2:30 am

[…] post over at Rainbow Designs.  Jacqui has a regular visitor around her home and she snapped this beautiful photo of a wild koala taking a nap in her gumtree.  The benefit of fostering a koala for my niece and […]

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