A Wonderful trip to Canberra's Tydbinbilla Nature Reserve

After celebrating Max's 18th birthday we, our daughter, and their families spent a relaxing day travelling to the beautiful Tydbinbilla nature reserve south of Canberra, especially to see its wildlife and mountain scenery.

Here are pictures of what we saw. I'll start with a focus on Koalas, an iconic Australian species that has become endangered because of loss of habitat especially through cutting of woodland and forest fires that have swept our nation in recent years. Were were so amazed at this cluster of Koalas in an enclosure that I took picture after picture of them. At one point local nature reserve staff even entered the enclosure and fed the animals with favourite tree leaves!

Walking through the forest we kept a lookout for other small animals, but saw few. The reserve also has several beautiful lakes as shown below.

These lakes were home to black swans and ducks. The swan on the right below was apprarently resting on some eggs.

Below, I took a picture of some small marsupial, but I cannot recall its name!

Here's a selfie of me overlooking some of the park's beautiful backdrop shown below. Note the possee of kangaroos in the pictures below.

Altogether, it was a lovely trip.

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