From Koala Island (otherwise known as Raymond Island) we've decide to set you a challenge: we've taken a photo of every single Koala we saw. Some are easier to spot that others... Can you find all 20?

Well, assuming you've looked at the photos, you'll now have an almost first-hand experience of what we spent the afternoon doing. Except we came away with neck-ache and a bit of sunburn.
Seeing these fury little creatures in their natural habitat -- if you'd call up a gum tree in the local residents' backyard 'the wild' -- was a unique experience. I've never seen such openly relaxed Koalas. Just to give you an idea, to best describe my favourite i'd have to say he was 'lounging' on a branch: lying flat out on his stomach, resting on one arm/paw, with one leg dangling over the side.

I'll leave you with one of my favourite childhood songs...which David made me sing at uneducated tourists, at every available opportunity:

PLEASE DON'T CALL ME A KOALA BEAR
Don Speancer/ Allan Caswell

I'm a koala, not a bear, and I don't think it's fair,
The way that people always add a word that isn't there,
I'm a marsupial (and proud of it),
And there can be no doubt of it,
I'm closer to a kangaroo than I am to a bear.

CHORUS
So please don't call me a koala bear,
Coz I'm not a bear at all.
Please don't call me a koala bear,
Its driving me up the wall!
If your name was Tom and everyone called you Dick,
Perhaps you'd understand why I'm sick, sick, sick -
I'm simply a koala and I want the name to stick,
Please don't call me a koala bear!


I live here in Australia, in a eucalyptus tree
I'm as cuddly, cute and charming as an animal can be
I don't understand, fair dinkum,
How anyone could think them grizzly bears and polar bears,
Are anything like me!

CHORUS
So please don't call me a koala bear,
Coz I'm not a bear at all.
Please don't call me a koala bear,
Its driving me up the wall!
If your name was Tom and everyone called you Dick,
Perhaps you'd understand why I'm sick, sick, sick -
I'm simply a koala and I want the name to stick,
Please don't call me a koala bear!