Our Resident Wombat

So excited a guest saw our resident wombat

We knew that we had had a resident wombat because there was a large entrance to a burrow amongst the roots of a huge riverside gum at Truffle Lodge.

But that was before the massive ‘Hundred Year Floods’ that we experienced in 2016, which ravaged our riverbank twice in as many months. The huge gum was undermined, and with that much of the burrow, and it was not clear if there was an entrance remaining at all, let alone a wombat.

So I was delighted when a guest told me that she had been up early looking for platypus, and the wombat had joined her.

She said that she was intent on the water, and didn’t know if she heard something or merely sensed something, that made her look over her shoulder, and there was the wombat. She said she sat there, motionless, looking one way at the wombat, and the other at the river for platypus. What a bonus!

The chair that she had been sitting on, on the water deck, is right in front of the big ‘wombat’ gum, so it looks like it may have been there all along, or may have come back to the burrow. We are delighted, and relieved, as we feared for its safety after the floods.

We are very proud that we are an accredited Land for Wildlife sanctuary, and this is a perfect example of getting more than you give.

P.S. This is not ‘our’ wombat, just a convenient image. Our guest did not have a camera with her in the pre-dawn light, but she said this one from an ID parade looked just like him haha!