"Mum, you'll never believe it. Guess what was walking down the middle of the road when we got home from school. Can you guess?"
It was a koala.
We don't know how a koala came to be ambling down our street less than five kilometres from the centre of Adelaide, a city of over a million people.
Where did he come from? There is not much bushland nearby.
Anyhow, a dog began to bark and Mr Koala skedaddled up a tree. Unfortunately it was a lillipilli and not a eucalypt, so Mr Koala had nothing to eat.
He was still there an hour later when I got home from work, although I understand one of the neighbours had called a vet to find out what to do with him.
He was a big, fat grey fellow.
The next morning we went to see if he was still there but he had gone, under cover of darkness. I hope he (or she) is safe and well somewhere, eating gum leaves and telling all the other koalas about his adventures in suburbia.
image is borrowed from www.allposters.com
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