{"id":19561,"date":"2024-09-19T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=19561"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:03:01","slug":"koalas-of-south-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/koalas-of-south-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Koalas of South Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

My eldest daughter lives in South Australia. This early spring–in Canada, early fall in Australia–Mistaya took me on many amazing hikes. My favouirte was a hike through koloa country. We spotted a total of 23 wild koalas in the trees on that hike. Koalas take the brunt of climate change and bush fires; thus, it was a thrill to se so many thriving in this particular protected forest.<\/p>\n

Below are a few of the portraits I took, enjoy! *I used a 600 mm telephoto lens to not disturb the beauties.<\/p>\n

Queen of the Forest<\/strong><\/p>\n

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My eldest daughter lives in South Australia. This early spring–in Canada, early fall in Australia–Mistaya took me on many amazing hikes. My favouirte was a hike through koloa country. We spotted a total of 23 wild koalas in the trees … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3464,1805],"tags":[3455,3459,276,3849,594,3402],"class_list":["post-19561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania","category-travelandadventure","tag-australia","tag-koalas","tag-nature","tag-south-australia","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3464,"label":"Oceania"},{"value":1805,"label":"Travel"}],"post_tag":[{"value":3455,"label":"Australia"},{"value":3459,"label":"Koalas"},{"value":276,"label":"nature"},{"value":3849,"label":"south Australia"},{"value":594,"label":"wildlife"},{"value":3402,"label":"wildlife photography"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_9777-1024x828.jpeg",1024,828,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"mixhart","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/author\/mixhart\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3464,"name":"Oceania","slug":"oceania","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3511,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1805,"count":11,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3464,"category_count":11,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Oceania","category_nicename":"oceania","category_parent":1805},{"term_id":1805,"name":"Travel","slug":"travelandadventure","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1859,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":363,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1805,"category_count":363,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Travel","category_nicename":"travelandadventure","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":3455,"name":"Australia","slug":"australia","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3502,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":10,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3459,"name":"Koalas","slug":"koalas","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3506,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":276,"name":"nature","slug":"nature","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1412,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":21,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3849,"name":"south Australia","slug":"south-australia","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3896,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":594,"name":"wildlife","slug":"wildlife","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":594,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3402,"name":"wildlife photography","slug":"wildlife-photography","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3449,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19579,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561\/revisions\/19579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}