Zoos Victoria announced the Opening of Kangaroo Country would happen on 20 December, so naturally at least one of us needed to be there.
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A trip to Healesville Sanctuary (11 November 2017)
We headed out early to try and arrive at Healesville Sanctuary as close to opening time as possible. Early morning at Healesville is always a special time, the bush is positively alive with the sounds of animals and there are very few human voices/sounds to disturb them. As an added bonus, we often find that we meet one of the keepers returning an animal to its enclosure after their morning enrichment, like when taking a dingo or a wombat for a walk. This morning was extra special though.
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A trip to Melbourne Zoo (7 July 2017)
A beautiful cool winter’s morning is the best time to visit one the three zoos in Victoria and on this trip we were not disappointed. The male lions posed sleepily in the early morning sunlight:
A trip to Healesville (3 July 2017)
Having been lucky enough to get some new gear, one naturally wants to test it out and see what you can do with it, but this time with some Australian natives in a bush setting.
First stop for us at Healesville now is the new Koala and Echidna enclosure:
A trip to Melbourne Zoo (22 April 2017)
Sanja and I took a trip to Melbourne Zoo as we hadn’t been to any of the Zoos in Victoria since January.
First stop was to check on the monkeys in the canopy walk.
