Welcome to Saturday Among the Gum Trees - it's Wild Koala Day! 🐨

May 3, 2025


Good morganite, friends! A very happy Saturday to you all!! It's time to grab your cup of coffee or tea and enjoy some friendly conversation with one another.

Today is our chance to celebrate these fabulous little creatures who spend the majority of the day sleeping off their last meal....and always look heart-meltingly cuddly and adorable!! 😻 We all remember the terrible fires a few years back that destroyed so many koala communities and habitats on the Australian East coast, and it's great to know that lots of people in affected regions have been doing their best to regenerate the flora and fauna of these areas, and monitor recovery success. Curiously, the koala's scientific name of Phascolarctos cinereus literally means 'ash-grey pouched bear', with the 'arctos' part harking back to the belief they were bears when named! Today, we're going to pay tribute to the wonderful koalas in the FNB way, by sharing all kinds of sweet images, whether photos, gifs, memes, paintings or even cartoons and comics!! 🐨🥰🐨🌳🐨😊🐨😺 There's no obligation to post images. The only thing we hope you do is have fun.