Monday, March 6th - Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary

We spent a chunk of today at a marvelous wildlife sanctuary.  I like the way they run it:  the animals are pretty much free to roam.  The fences keep the people out of areas they shouldn't go.  SO many interesting animals.  I wish we had more time there as we certainly did not see all that was there. 

The emus were very curious and friendly. 

The Koala was sleepy but did wake up for a bit to take a bite of food while we were watching. 

Kangaroos just lazing around and keeping an eye on us.  They clearly owned the place.

Cappybara

They had statues of ancient giant versions of many of the animals.  This would be a VERY scary cappybara to run into in the outback. 

Two different kinds of dingoes

Very cute Echidna

The bird show was very interesting but I wanted to watch it more than I wanted to try to get photos.  It was pretty cool to see the birds show off their skills.  Amazing colors on the various parrots and cockatoos.  Also impressive birds of prey - owls and hawks.