day three

Smokey without mum and in the same tree for three days. Suddenly, Racee is back on morning four.
Who can tell why she was gone for that time?
Thank you for the lovely messages of support and concern here during this awful time of fires.

[Wylie]

Yawn, what a sleepy Koala.

[Issi Bannerman]

Always one eye half open!

[Beryl Lloyd]

Aaw ! poor Smokey perhaps hugging the tree in comfort till mum came back !

[tony gig]

Beautiful...

[Lesley]

Lovely

[Fr1da]

Smokey is very handsome !

[Diana]

I wonder if motherly instincts brought her back 😊

[Valerie Chesney]

Smokey is gorgeous...

[Babs]

Aw poor Smokey, it must be so scary beginning his journey into the big koalas world. Maybe Racee was off on the razzle or maybe she was just keeping an eye on him from a distance to see how he would cope.

[Pigeons Farm]

Smokey is so cute :)

[Lou Ann]

A handsome fellow! Sweet too.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Such a cute shot.

[Jean]

Cutie!

[Margaret Brown]

He’s so sweet!

[KoalaGardens🐨]

@onewing not quite, there was something very definite that she was doing though :)
@ludwigsdiana they did, but why did she leave for 3 days? :)

[carol white]

A lovely capture of Smokey. Fav!! 😀. Pleased your Koalas are still keeping safe

[Elyse Klemchuk]

Might she have a new joey in her pouch? Did she want to see how Smokey would do with her a little farther away?

[Richard Sayer]

Perhaps she went away to 'make' a new joey 🥰

[KoalaGardens🐨]

@kchuk @vignouse you are getting closer - yes it is connected to a new joey, but it wasn't a test, and it wasn't to 'make' the joey - so what exactly was happening??? :)

[haskar]

Was Smokey not yet ready to live independently?

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Super shot

[KoalaGardens🐨]

@haskar getting very close to being full independent, but that's not the reason she came back - or more fully not the reason she went away quietly for a few days ...

[Sylvia du Toit]

So cute

[Corinne]

Always cute !

[Pyrrhula]

Birds sweep out the yong ones at a day. Great shot of this cuty.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

My goodness- a koala soap opera! A mother on the loose, a child left in a tree and perhaps a suitor in the wings? To be continued...

Another adorable shot of Smokey.

[wendy frost]

I think Racee had a date .

[Elyse Klemchuk]

I hope she wasn’t in the hospital. Is she okay?

[KoalaGardens🐨]

@wendyfrost @kchuk not a date, and not in hospital, she is very much OK :) I'm sure someone will figure it out! keep trying :)

[Milanie]

You just want to reach out and pat her.

[Rick]

Great capture.

[Shutterbug]

Glad she’s back. It must be a relief to see them.

[Elyse Klemchuk]

Has she stayed around? How is Smokey doing? How is your weather? I hope the fires are being brought under control.