Saturday, 20 June 2015

Taronga Zoo

I am not a zoo person, but everyone was recommending that I go to Taronga Zoo, and now I have been I really see why. 

For a start, you have to a boat to get there. Then you get in a cable car, which rises up to the top of the   zoo. You then meander down to the sea again, seeing the animals as you go. The views from the cable car are amazing because you see fantastic views of Sydney, plus the animals underneath you.




I focused on the Australian animals. There are very few cages - instead there are areas that you wander around so you are 'in' with the animals. You are just asked to keep to the paths. I didn't go into the African area, but I presume that they do not take this approach to the lions and tigers.

So here are wallabies, kangaroos and koalas!!





There was an amazing Australian pelican.


Later on I went back on the ferry and travelled around the bay a bit more, jumping from stop to stop. At one beach there was another pelican just wandering around mixing with the children building sand castles!

I wasn't going to stop at the seals because - you know - seen seals. But I passed at feeding time. The most enormous sealion was wondering where his lunch was...













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