School holidays provide a great opportunity to take a weekday visit to Melbourne Zoo. Arriving just after opening time we headed straight for the Carnivore’s Trail, catching the lions still having a yawn:
A trip to Melbourne Zoo (9 January 2018)
We once again headed into Melbourne Zoo to take advantage of the early opening times and hopefully catch sight of Miska, the beautiful snow leopard, like we did on our last visit. Arriving shortly before the gates opened at 8am, we queued with other eager visitors. Once the gates opened we headed directly for the Carnivore’s Trail, passing by the empty Lion enclosure (the boys were still in their beds) we found that there were some necessary works going on and Carnivore’s Trail was closed until 9am, so we checked in on Isabella, the Philippines Crocodile.
A trip to Healesville Sanctuary (20 December 2017)
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 Melbourne Zoo (15 September 2017)
One of the best things about being a Zoos Victoria member is the fact that you can go in anytime without needing to buy a ticket for yourself. On this occasion we invited our good friend Chloe and her partner Alex to join us as both of them hadn’t been to any of the zoos in years. Unfortunately Alex had to be at work, but Chloe was able to make it. As an added bonus, we lent Chloe our Nikon D3200 to play with so she could experience the joy of photography with a real camera instead of using her phone.
Our first stop was to visit the lemurs as Chloe hadn’t seen the new Lemur Island. The lemurs, however, were still stirring from their slumber.
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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:
