CURLS' adventures continued from last week's report where she was seen entering Airds High School.

Callers to the koala pager had previously allowed us to plot her course since August from Acacia Avenue in Ruse along Greengate Drive in Airds to Woodland Road in St Helens Park.

Here she spent a couple of weeks beside the service station and primary school generating dozens of calls to the pager until finally vanishing on December 13, we thought, into the safety of Spring Creek bushland.

Curls had other ideas, however, and walked the three kilometres back to Airds High without being reported.

Two nights later she was spotted crossing Riverside Drive where she climbed an ironbark tree and looked down on the service station.

The police were also called and we explained to the officers that Curls was an experienced traveller.

Two days later she was spotted in a large tree in Kevin Wheatley Reserve and the next night she was in a tree looking down on the retirement village in Heathfield Place.

A caller reported small boys throwing stones at her and a call was made to the RSPCA.

However, it would be a brave boy who would take on the residents of the village, delighted to be visited by a koala on Australia Day.

Curls spent another night with her friends in the village before heading off again.

Heathfield Place leads to Smiths Creek which then runs through a reserve for several kilometres.

Perhaps Curls will find an unoccupied piece of bush to establish her territory there.

Relatively few sightings have been made in Smiths Creek, none of a mother and cub.

However, in September last year we tagged a young female at Carrington Crescent and, in mid-December, a big male was bellowing in nearby Dowling Street.

Two weeks later a koala was sighted in Tabourie Street and the following night in Conjola Crescent.

This week koalas have been spotted in Wyangala Crescent and in Smiths Creek, adjacent to Lugarno Avenue.

So let's hope there's still a place vacant for Curls.

If not, we'll no doubt receive a call from a school, service station or retirement village somewhere else in Campbelltown.

Please report all koala sightings (after looking carefully for, and noting the colour of eartags: one in each ear) to the UWS koala pager, 99629996.