Description: Another attraction of Canberra is its approximity to bushland. In fact, just a 40 minute drive southwest of the city center, the reserve has a number of bushwalks lasting anywhere from 30 minutes to almost a whole day. The reserve is dedicated to the preservation of the gum forest, along with its animals: the wallabies, kangaroos, koalas, emus, and other animals that roam the area. In fact, the first animals we encountered were the emus, who seemed totally fearless of us, and actually managed to intimidate us when one of them approached our car with what seemed to be total anger in its eyes. We promptly rolled up the window, from where we were taking their picture, and drove away. Thinking back, we can only laugh.
Once inside a designated parking area, you pass by an enclosure to enter a park. The enclosure is loose, meaning that the animals are allowed to roam fairly free, so that visitors not only can observe them in their natural environment, but can have actual encounters with them to boot. As for ourselves, we came fairly close to a large group of kangaroos, before they decided we were just too boring and left us. At another enclosure in the park, the attraction is to walk among large tall trees in search of koalas.
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