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 (16 Feb 2018)
Arriving as the gates opened and heading directly for the Carnivore’s trail, we found the African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus) having a stretch in the early morning sun.
A trip to Melbourne Zoo (4 Feb 2018)
With family visiting from overseas who absolutely love animals, especially cats, we naturally had to ensure a trip to one of the three Zoos Victoria sites. On her first visit to Australia, we took Jasminka to Healesville Sanctuary and so this time we arranged to have an afternoon at Melbourne Zoo with a couple of extra special encounters. We arranged to meet up a little over an hour before the first encounter so we could take Jasminka around to see some of her favourite animals.
Even though we were not meeting up until the early afternoon, we once again arrived early to Melbourne Zoo, eager to visit many of the wonderful animals, especially the big cats. Our first stop was to visit Binjai, the Sumatran tigress, on the Trail of the Elephants. Binjai was busy eating some grass and sniffing around her habitat, seemingly playing a game of hide-and-seek with visitors.
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 Melbourne Zoo (29 December 2017)
During the summer school holidays, Zoos Victoria opens the gates an hour earlier which gives visitors a great opportunity to see some of the preparations that keepers go through in getting things ready for the day and catching some of the animals going through their own morning routines. Naturally we arrived prior to the gates opening even for the early opening in the hope that we might catch the Snow Leopards out and about before the day warmed up too much. As such, our first stop was at their fantastic new enclosure on the Carnivore’s Trail.
Finding the doors to the night dens closed and the keepers busy cleaning, we wandered around a little further to visit Indrah, the female Sumatran Tiger, in her new home. Here we found Indrah pacing about a little as if she was trying to decide whether to go for a swim, go hide out the back or lie down on one of her many vantage points to survey her domain.
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