Students visit reptile park

Kindergarten students from Umina Beach Public School boarded buses bound for the Australian Reptile Park and Bulgandry aboriginal site on Wednesday, September 20.

The first stop was Bulgandry where students walked through the bush to visit the sandstone Aboriginal carvings.

A short bus trip later and the students were at the Reptile Park.

They ate some morning tea then went off to explore the park and its many exhibits.

"Kindergarten was very interested to learn that gum leaves were actually poisonous to baby koalas and that they have to eat their mother's poo to build up their tolerance of the poisons that are in the leaves which will be their main food source for the rest of their lives," said principal Ms Lyn Davis.

Highlights included patting a koala, and viewing snakes, a lizard, a baby alligator and some slimy frogs.

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Newsletter, 10 Oct 2017

Lyn Davis, Umina Beach Public School