Wombat Info

Since the Wombat has left to hang out in Hong Kong with Cindy, I figured I'd give everyone some more information about real-life wombats and some photos of them. Wombats are considered marsupials and their closest relation is the koala bear. They are generally slow movers, but if threatened, they can reach up to 25 miles/hour. That's pretty fast for this short legged creature!

Even though our wombat was very small and cute, most wombats are about 3 feet in length and unfortunately not as cute. Here are some more photos of the zoo's wombat. At first it was just wandering around.



It looked at us with curiosity.


At one point, the wombat went over to this water bucket and ended up dumping the bucket over. Oops!


Australia's interesting fact of the day: The movies! Besides the expensive price for going to see a movie, it's very different from the US. The theatre I went to wasn't quite as big so almost everyone had a great seat. Their seats were very comfortable, but didn't rock. The seat part didn't even move up so they weren't trying to cram as many people into the movie theatre. Finally, the big difference was assigned seating. Yep, that's right there was assigned seating. This was actually pretty great because you didn't have to try and get to the movie theatre on time since you knew you'd have a great seat. And since there are about 25 minutes of commercials mixed in with 3 previews at the "start" of the movie, you could show up 20 minutes late to avoid all that nonsense as well!