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Last Tuesday AMEP classes went on an excursion to Featherdale Wildlife Park, it's location is in Donside(near blacktown).
Last Semester students of AMEP helped with the Health Expo and earned money so the Student Association helped us with this excursion by paying all the fee entry so most of the students were happy with that(free).
AMEP teachers hired a bus which was very comfortable, and also all students were sitting on their seats. They thought it was much easier than to catch train and bus.
We met in the morning at 8:45 on the Princess Highway behind Building A, then I saw my classmates were sitting there and waited for the bus to come, while we were waiting we talked about our holiday and what we did during it. Some of them did something and the others were boring.
We left there at 9:05 and we arrived to the park approximately 10:10 so it took 1 hour, when we arrived there one of the teachers stood up and started to explain to us what we should do, and also she told that we couldn't feed the animals with our food there's a special food for them which was really interesting but I didn't try it, and also a passport for this Park inside which were some pictures of animals to stamp them where the animals are.
Everyone entered the Park, we split up into groups and I thought all of them were excited to come in and have a look what's inside because we had a lots of work about this day what we did, what we saw etc. and a report for your favourite animals, we took photos to publish them on your blog.
The Kangaroo was the first animal I saw, so cute when they were running around and some of them were hopping too.
Some people got scared when they saw them very close but the others enjoyed feeding them and took ohotos, and one of our classmates put her foot on their claws but she didn't realise that a Kangaroo was behind her.
Featherdale full of native animals such as Koalas,Kangaroo,Emu etc.
I took photos for a Koala while she was holding her 2 babies and standing on the top of a tree .
They always sleep nearly the hole days and they are lazy. I also saw many kinds of birds, some of them are caged and the others are free.
The Penguins were swimming , a Pelican "whose bill can hold more than his belly", and also 2 Kangaroos were kissing each other, when i held my camera to take a photo of them they finished their love session.
A Peacok was standing but he didn't open her wonderful feathers with their special coulours.
There were many kinds of snakes, each kind has a decorated place, rocks, sands and light. The Lizard was lying in the sun, I woke up the Dingo and I took a photo of it.
Turtles are reptitles which live in the water their bodies covered with shell to protect them.
A Kookabura which has a very noisy sounds was singing his heart out. The Sun Concure is a beautiful parrot which is naturally, brightly coloured, actually it's an amazing and fabulous bird with their amazing sounds.
When you saw the Tawny Frogmouth, you think that he's not a bird, he looks like a branch of the tree that he stoods on because he has the same colour as the tree.
After 3 hours we decided to have a rest and ate some foods so we bought drink with potato chips and we sat together with our classmates. We enjoyed that lunch and we took a lot of photos with our teachers and classmates. Then we visited the Souvenir shop, which is a bit expensive but they have special things related to those animals.
After that we returned to the Bus to come back to TAFE.
We enjoyed that excursion we learnt a lot of new information about Aussie animals.
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Koala Bear
Koala, some people call the Koala "Koala Bear" because it looks like a teddy Bear.
The Koala scientific name isb "phasclarctos cinereus".
The Koala is one of Australia's most popular animals. The Koala is a marsupial mammal.Koalas have a very thick grey fur which protects them from low temperatures also it's like a raincot when it rains.
The Koala has an excellence balance to climb trees, it paws are very sharp and each paws has five digits, and it has 2 thumbs and 3 fingers , which is different from a human(human has 1 thumbs amd 4 fingers).
The male of Koala can weigh between 8 to 14 kg, the female between 6 to 11 kg.
Koalas are nocturnal so they are more active during the night. They live and sleep in the Eucalyptus trees and sleep between 18 to 20 hours per day which is nearly the hole day.
Koala has big ears and nose. The nose of Koala is because it has a very high sense of smell to feel the difference between edible gum leaves and poisonous leaves.
The young Koala is called a Cub and stays in the mother's pouch for 5 months because it is blind when it is born.
Koalas can run as fast as rabbit.
