Koalas and Kangaroos in the wild

Many thanks for all replies.
It seems that koalas concentrate in south eastern part of Australia.

There are no koalas at all in Western Australia, except in zoos or wildlife parks....

Pebbly Beach and Depot Beach in the Murramarang National Park near Batemans Bay are famous for their surfing Kangaroos. OK they don't actually surf but you will see them on the beach every morning at sunrise and every evening at sunset. It is also one of the most beautiful spots on the New South Wales south coast.Depot Beach Kangaroos

I have wallabies coming into my back yard every night.

Mrs Raki yells at me for giving them carrots as she says that after eating the carrots they eat her roses and everything else.

I have always liked the stories of Saki- "The gardeners had told the Prince that you couldn't have pigs and flowers, so he decided to have pigs and no flowers." I have wallabies and no roses.........

Koalas are mean and nasty. And very whiney.

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Apparently you don't even need to leave Sydney suburbs at times to see kangaroos: Wallaby bounds through Chatswood. Chatswood is about as inner-suburban as it gets in Sydney. Interesting to note that they live in Lane Cove National Park. If you looked at a map of Sydney you would see how comparatively close these suburbs are to the City.

Well there was a koala in my garden (in Port Macquarie) yesterday afternoon. Screaming its head off (sounded like a wounded cat). At the top of a fairly flimsy tree. It was very windy, so maybe it was scared. The males do make a very loud noise at night to mark their territory, like a donkey or a pig, but screaming is unusual. They are often hard to see though. We do have a koala hospital in town too. Plenty of grey kangaroos around here as well. Diamond Head camping ground in Crowdy Bay National Park is a good place to see them.

The Tasmanian Government tried to introduce koalas into Tasmania in the 1830's as a source of food for settlers lost in the bush.

They brought in several pairs, put them in gum trees, and waited for them to spread.

A month or two later they were all dead of starvation as Tasmania had the wrong kind of gum trees!

^ ha!

Hello,

regarding the Kangaroos in Morisset, i read this article that says that they were infected by a parasite.

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2110346/parasite-attacks-morisset-kangaroos-poll/

Are they still ill or is it now safe to see them in Morisett?

Nik