Cooberrie Park

The next day, Craig had his first ever trip to a zoo! Aunty Annette, Bailey, Craig's Mum and Dad and Craig (of course) all piled into Craig's Grandma's new Toyota and travelled to Cooberrie Park, a very small zoo/park that is a couple of miles outside of Yeppoon. At 1pm every afternoon (except Christmas Day) it offers the chance to pat a koala and/or hold a joey (baby kangaroo). They also have snakes! And Bailey went straight to the line of kids waiting for their turn to hold two snakes.


Some of the smaller children only held one but Bailey wanted to hold both of the snakes on offer!


Meanwhile, the koala was doing what koalas do best, sleeping.


Craig wasn't very interested in the sleeping koala.


But he seemed to like the kangaroo joey.


Bailey was big enough to be allowed to hold the joey by himself.



After the little holding and patting show had finished it was time to go out into the zoo proper and feed the other animals. Craig's Mum was the first to feed a mother kangaroo with a joey in her pouch.


Then, Craig's Dad fed the kangaroo from a different angle so that we could get a better picture of the joey in her pouch.


The kangaroo liked to hang on very firmly to the hand of the person feeding her. It actually hurt Craig's Dad's wrist a little.


Bailey had fun feeding kangaroos as well but he found a mother kangaroo that was more relaxed about being fed. She didn't feel the need to grab the hand that was doing the feeding.


There are plenty of kangaroos at Cooberrie Park.


Bailey was very good about trying to feed as many different kangaroos as possible.


That night Craig's Grandma, Aunty Annette, and Bailey accompanied Craig and his Mum and Dad to dinner at a nice restaurant called Beaches. The next afternoon Aunty Annette and Bailey flew back to Sydney.


But that was OK because Craig would be seeing them again soon.