Gunns Plains

Wings Wildfire Park….
The desire to see a wombat has been building….. We didn’t get a chance to visit Maria Island, a wombat haven, so I needed the next best thing.

This park was recommended by Cheryl at work, so was on our must do list. The drive was further than expected and at the end of another of Tassie’s famous circuitous roads 😳

As well as general entry, Col bought me a wombat encounter! After cooing over the koala (Blinky, a rescued joey from the SA fires, a few years back) we proceeded to Sunny, the juvenile wombat’s enclosure.

I sat on a bench and had a barrel of young wombat plonked on me. She was totally adorable ♥️
Sadly her mum had been hit by a truck, and Sunny was found in her pouch ☹️

After a while Sunny became restless, so her handler put her down and she started chewing on my trainer laces, her fave thing! Then she got an attack of the zoomies, following on my heels as I walked around her enclosure, she kept up despite her little legs. I loved meeting her - what a cutie!

We then wondered around seeing the other critters, devils, potoroos, fed the wallabies, ‘roos, etc. Sadly, we didn’t really give ourselves long enough for them all, but having a wombat sitting on my lap had to be the highlight!Read more