Yanchep a.k.a. Sun City

Where is Sun City?

At Kalbarri we attended the Sun City Centre for church on Sunday. Initially I thought that Kalbarri might be called Sun City. There we discovered the church was an outreach from Geraldton.

The church in Gerladton was known as Sun City and was an Assemblies of God congregation. New Zealanders would have some fun with a church called Sun City given the way they pronounce the "u". I guess locals could easily get caught in the trap to. I digress! Sun City must be Geraldton.

A couple of stops down the line I played golf at Yanchep - at the Sun City Golf Club.

So is Yanchep Sun City or does that nickname belong to Geraldton?

At Yanchep it was a day at a delightful national park. It lacked the dramatic views of parks further north, but had many wildflowers (even this late in the season) and was home to a koala area. I'm not sure whether it was a park, and enclosure or a reserve. Whatever you call it, the koalas couldn't get out and we wandered amongst the trees on a boardwalk that got as about two metres closer to these animals.

While it was a lovely walk on a warm day (sun city?) I am still amazed that people keep calling them koala 'bears'. They are related to the wombat, not the bear. Maybe it is because they look cuddly like a teddy bear or something. My understanding of bears is that they are NOT cuddly. These guys might look cuddly, but the experience of others is that they pee on you when you hold them. Cuddly they may look, cute they may be, but that doesn't sound like something a friend would do.

Oh yes, there was also a golf course there with more kangaroos on the first fairway that we saw at the National Park. This guy wasn't going to move. He was off the fairway (not the cut line in the grass) and I should not have been.