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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.

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A trip to Werribee Zoo (20 August 2017)

Having completed the Nikon School at Melbourne Zoo the previous day, we were itching to try out some of the advice at a different location. We took the drive to Werribee and arrived by mid-morning (even after initially missing the freeway turn-off). Werribee’s massive layout provides plenty of places for the animals to wander, which can also then provide a challenge in just finding some of the animals. Some animals, however, make themselves very obvious, like this bird that calmly walked across the pathway in front of us:

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We also got really lucky with one of the gorillas happily sitting and posing in almost perfect light, in an almost perfect position for photography:

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