Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day

The Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane has more than koalas. In addition to koalas, we saw birds (including a kookaburra), platypuses, Germans, lizards, frogs, snakes, wallabies, and of course kangaroos. And we could feed the kangaroos. One of the Germans had extra food that she gave me since they were headed out. [Note: the Germans were people we ran into there who we all knew from the conference in Brisbane. One of them had bought the food in the park that was explicitly for feeding the animals and had some left. It wasn't schnitzel, stollen, or spaetazle, just some grass and pellets (with sausage...). They were not part of the exhibit, since they're not native to the region.] Since it was mid-afternoon, a lot of the kangaroos weren't that interested in food and were either resting, napping, or dozing or they they were foraging for grass. But I found one that was interested in snacks.

Thanks to Parag who took the picture and directed me to raise my hand up a little so the kangaroo would to sitting up on its back legs rather than leaning over so it was on all fours, with it's head close to the ground. I guess he was directing the kangaroo too.

These are what I imagine kangaroos should look like. A little smaller than me, generally friendly, occasionally hopping. Not the 7 foot tall monsters that could bench-press a jeep with shaved heads and tattooos (OK, they don't have the last two but that's only because they haven't figured out how to do that without opposable thumbs—the koalas could help in that department, with their freaky 2nd thumbs). Here's the full-size picture.