Last week I left you with a little taster of the fun we had while at the wildlife park. However, we did not spend the whole day chasing emus, whatever you may have thought.
The Cleland Wildlife park is located within the Cleland Conservation Park about a 35 minute bus ride from the city. The day we traveled turned out to be cooler, but it was nice because the park wasn't busy on the Monday, and the animals were plenty active enough. The park is very large and not like a regular zoo. The animals are in very large open spaces suited to their needs. The great thing about the park is that you are allowed to walk around with the majority of the animals, feeding and petting them as you (or they) please. There is a wide range of kangaroos and wallabies within the park including Western Grey, Red and Kangaroo Island kangaroos, as well as the Swamp, Tammar and Yellow-Footed Rock-wallabies.
The park also has a Ocean to Outback Exhibit which shows the different ocean life found along the coast as well as different small animals, snakes, turtles, bats and reptiles found throughout the country. It was quite interesting (disgusting) watching the bats eat mice while hanging.
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| Dingos, they sure are cute but better watch out or the dingo might just eat your baby! |
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| Em and I with Steven the Koala! (Next time we go, we will be sure to pay the extra to hold him!) |
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| Who's the crazy bird lady?? |
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| What's in the bag lady? |
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| I thought I smelled food. |
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| Bird life in one of the Aviaries |
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| Just chillin' |
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| got a joey in there mate? |
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| fast friends |
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| I smuggled this one into my bag. |
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| why can't we be friends? oh why can't we be friends? Oh ya...I remember now. |
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| until next time! |
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