07:00am to 06:00pm

Today was my second day at the scantuary. We started off raking some of the paths in the park, then i went around on the background tour again with another ranger. We changed the water and fed them all along the way as we started with the larger cleaning of the park. We raked all the enclosures for leaves and the pathways around the enclosures. When we finished the background morning feeding and cleaning, the others were just started on the morning tea. There were cake, a plate with cut fruit and lots of biscuits :) after tea i helped with the koala feeding, they got 3 different types of eucalyptus leaves. I washed up all the food trays from yesterday and then we started preparing the food for tomorrow. The other volunteers and i pretty much prepared all the food just us, the others volunteers finished some of the last food preparing and i brushed and washed the floor. Meanwhile all the rangers were out cleaning up and removing already fallen trees in the park, the dangerous trees will be cut down by professional loggers on monday. We went to lunch break at 02:00 pm so it was kind of late, the sandwich we got were 2 slices of toast and then we had the choice of either ham & cheese or ham & cheese with a slice of tomato, Great! We could toast it in a toaster, but there was a long queue so i just started eating it raw, once the rangers were ready with their toasts we went outside at a suuuuper cozy spot with a small table and a chair for everyone. It was really funny one of the rangers brought the white cacatoo from the kitchen out aswell and it walked from shoulder to shoulder and begged for a bite of toast, it eventualy got one pice, but that just made the begging worse. Now it was about eating your sandwich before the cacatoo grabs it, so one of the rangers put her back in the kitchen and we could relax. When we finished lunch we continued cleaning the paths, we cleared all the background by hand raking and moving branches, i got close to one of the fences in the crocodile arear and all of a sudden the next largest croc jumped out of the water, Roaaaar!!!!! we all got a shock! it was really big it was 4,3 meters long and the largest crocodile they have is 4,5 meters so its pretty close. We had to let Josh in, one of the many black cacatoos and they asked if i would do it, since it always seems to be the new once it likes. I got a handfull of sunflower seeds and went out there and kate told me to knock on the branch, i knocked on the branch and it crawled down on my arm, Woooooooo! i have never had a black cacatoo siting on my arm eating from my hand, that was an experience of a life time. Then we walked back to his enclosure and i let him in on his own branch :) Just before we were about to go home i got a volunteer shirt. Now i can fit in with the others :) On the way home we went by Kates house because she had had Kimberlys car so that it wouldn't get flooded in all the water, we just helped Kate move some sandbags from the front of her garage and then we went home. What a day, it was really nice and time just ran away so before we got from the zoo and by kates house and back home to the hostle it was 06:00pm :O


The park will be open on saturday, im so excited!!! :)
Speak to you soon,
Soren

After another place :)

Before we started

Josh grabs my arm

Me feeding Josh