New Wildlife in our Garden at Willunga

This morning, when I went to empty the teapot on a favorite plant by the patio, the Noisy Miners were more hysterical than usual up in the gum trees with the magpies equally  upset. When I went to investigate there in the fork of the red flowering blue gum was a Koala..... where did he come from I inquired, how had he arrived here?
He just looked down and wasn't telling.....
We are mostly surrounded by vineyards and the last Koala I saw in the wild was at Kuitpo, probably about ten km from here

 so it is a mystery as to how he came here. And I wonder will he stay , do we have the right gum leaves for him? I always thought they could only survive on Manna Gum leaves but perhaps he finds the gum blossom OK at the moment.
The plant on the right,an Agave of some sort, has taken about five years to get to this stage. Brian raised it from some seed we got from a plant in McLaren Vale near Hardies' winery . It has been the most difficult plant to photograph as I just could not get the whole of the flower stalk in, it is so tall.
It has lovely flowers on branches,  beautifully marked inside on
the flower walls.
Below is the photo of the flowers and perhaps if you click on the photo you can get a better view of it.
We have two more which are growing next to the Studio wall but on the south side and they are much smaller than this one is.

I guess it will die after it has finished flowering and I wonder if it will leave pups or only seeds.
The gum tree it is growing next to was sold to us as a Mountain ash but no way is this a Mountain ash tree. It is very annoying to buy a plant which turns out not to be the one labeled as such. We once bought Plane trees, thinking they were London planes but they turned out to be Oriental plane trees and did no good here at all.

Autumn has arrived and though we have hardly had any rain the bulbs have popped up anyway and it is always a delight to see the Nerines , which may look all dry and shriveled on the surface, suddenly shoot up stems and show their red/orange flowers in groups, giving colour to the otherwise brown and  desiccated garden.
They flower for quite a long time as well.

The paintbrush lilies are also on display now.
Of course they will send out their enormous leaves afterwards and each year I intend to dig them up and transplant them where the leaves will not be  in other plants way.
Bulbs are such a satisfying plant to have as they will die back and go through the hottest summer only to pop up again when the weather cools and the sun is no longer so severe. Great in our dry climate.

This year for some reason, the autumn colours are much deeper and the Virginia creeper is just gorgeous in all its red glory with the Golden Rain tree setting it off even more so when viewed through the morning light. My photo does not do it justice, perhaps I should have doctored it in Photoshop before posting it......
I am doing a photography course at the end of this month....hopefully I shall learn a lot from that..........