Got back to the park and settled in for another long 3 days for working/boredom (at night). I brought a good book this time, so hopefully it will keep me busy! First day back was pretty easy, worked with Natasha. I helped her make food mixes, cleaned out enclosures and same old same old. Last week we listened to a semi-seminar of what snakes were at the park. 4 venomous snakes were present: the tiger snake, eastern brown snake, puff adder and red belly snake. The Puff adder and red belly snake are not aggressive snakes, when seen all you have to do is stop, back away slowly and take another route. The snake will only strike if there is no where to hide and it feels threatened. The tiger and brown snake on the other had are very aggressive snakes! Number one rule...NEVER run from them, they WILL chase you! How freaking scary is that! They will chase because that is how they catch their prey. Fun fact number 2, if you see a tiger or brown snake and it is a good distance away from you...you can walk/run parallel to the snake and it will mimic you....WEIRD! Definitely not going to test that theory IF I see one. So back to what to do if you see one, back away very VERY VERY slowly, get as far away as possible from that bugger. Once far away still do NOT run, just keep walking backwards. GEEZ I hope I never see one! With all the out of the way and explained I can get back to my day. While walking from the Visitor center to the maintenance shed, Natasha almost stepped on a Red Belly! Crazy shit! I think I saved her life :). It went into an animals enclosure and then all volunteers were sent away so they could catch it and rehome the snake on the outskirts of the park. That was the excitement of that day. On to the next day, worked with Karen and got to clean the Bilbilies/Potoroo yard by myself. Treated the short neck turtles (they had shell rot, which they get from being in the water too much and the open wounds getting infected.) You have to soak them in iodine from an hour and then coat them in a ointment for another hour. After washing off the excess ointment, I had to feed all the turtles. The two I treated in the shed, one in the farm yard, and two in the koala yard. Got to feed the tawny owl at the end of the day and the kookaburra! He is a sneaky/feisty bugger always trying to steal the other birds food! I forgot to mention I got to help with the leaf change for the Koalas. Every day at 2:30, the Koalas get woken up and we give them new Eucalyptus to munch on. Interesting fact about Koalas. They sleep 20 hours a day, because the leaves have very little fat content, which does not give them much energy to do much, plus it takes over 200 hours to digest the leaves since they are very toxic! They wake up basically to eat, for the most 15-20 minutes!
Back to my last day before the weekend! Had a horrible storm last night, thunder and lightning like no other! Luckily it was all done by the time I had to get up and go to work. My days all seem the same, I am with either Natasha or Karen (I think Natasha does it on purpose, we have a fun time together. Joking about everything!) Help clean, get to do some enclosures by myself, make the food for some animals in the shed. Help feed the animals in the afternoon, and check all the locks at the end of the day...BLAH BLAH BLAH. I ready for a fun weekend in Sydney, the end is coming up fast! This weekend I want to go to Kings Cross!!!
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