Today was Australia Day. Apparently Australia Day activities can get pretty crazy, what with Australia's boozing culture, so we decided to avoid the city and head out to Healesville animal sanctuary to pet some kangaroos!! It was SO COOL.
First we went to a bird show, where an Australian ranger guy brings out bird after bird to fly around the audience and teach us about habitat conservation and stuff. I love the lady in the background clutching her baby...
Casper was only kind of in to the show, and generally was fidgety and distracted, but then snapped back to attention whenever the crowd clapped. The baby loves clapping! It was adorable.
Then we moved on and check out some other animals. We visited the platypus tank, which is real dark because these tiny guys are nocturnal. They are hilarious little buggers. This photo makes him look a lot more...bloblike then they actually were. They are fast little things and hard to photograph!
Then we visited the kangaroos. I got to feed and pet one! Her name was Heidi and she was my best friend.
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The first time i saw koalas i almost fainted. they and hilarious and sooo cute.
Emus are basically dinosaurs.
Tasmanian devil feeling lazy.
Wombats are among the funniest. They are giant torsos with a face and some feet. This one loooooves carrot.
We also saw a lyrebird, which are really beautiful and can copy any noise they hear.
Altogether it was a super cool day, and felt very Australian to see a bunch of bizarro marsupials and such. On the way home we drove through a beautiful eucalyptus forest, which was incredibly beautiful. I will never forget the smell of it. Amazing.
Happy Australia day everyone!
Location:Healesville Animal Sanctuary
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