Waterways Wildlife Park

After our lunch at the Porchetta festival, Bec and Rob headed off to their wedding and our party of 3 (including Dot and Max) took a short ride out of town to the Waterways wildlife park. I've been past the spot many times on the way to Coonabarabran or Canberra, but I've never previously noticed its existence. The park is basically home to Australian native animals of the usual kinds: koalas (lots of them), kangaroos, wallabies, parrots and wedge-tailed eagles, emus, possums, dingos, echidnas, wombats and so on. They are housed among pleasant native vegetation, though the compounds themselves are rather heath-robinson. Basically, a local family has collected the exhibits and turned them into a mini zoo with a few play areas, which Max liked, and barbecue facilities for those seeking longer stays. Ours was a short, but entertaining visit and some of the animals are shown here - though not the birds which didn't photograph well in their aviaries:

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