Koala swims during 40C Adelaide heatwave

It was not just the people of Adelaide trying to beat the heat yesterday, with a koala filmed taking a dip in the city’s east.

The woman who filmed the marsupial told Adelaide Now the koala tumbled down the bushes and into a pond at the Morialta Conversation Park about 11am.

It then spent about 10 minutes splashing around.

“We had seen other koalas up in the trees but nothing like this; it was just lovely,” she told the newspaper.

“He seemed to be enjoying himself.”

A swim was in order after some parts of Adelaide reached 40C yesterday.

Adelaide is expecting another scorcher today with the mercury forecast to hit 35C.