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| My zoo adventure buddies: Nicohle, Chelsey, Lisa and Miss B |
We saw plenty of Australian native animals, including koalas, kangaroos and wallabies, emu, echidna, possums, and bandicoots.
We spent a while with the meerkats, and got close up views of young meerkats play-fighting, and a young meerkat feeding from it's mum.
There seem to be at least three different meerkat areas (unless we just kept walking past the same one!), and one of them was home to a special meerkat which is gradually losing pigmentation and turning white!
I practiced my photography skills (soon to be improved!) on the rest of the zoo residents.
The camera did a great job of ignoring the cage wire on this one! It looks like it's right there in front of me!
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| Golden Pheasant, Adelaide Zoo |
The children's petting zoo is one of my FAVOURITE parts of the zoo, because: QUOKKAS!! These are my favourite Australian mammal, I just love their sweet little faces, they're absolutely adorable! Needless to say, we spent a while here :-D
The gibbons were very active and playful when we visited, and also spent a while grooming each other.
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| Miss B shows off her fancy sunnies - and her mouthful of sultanas! |
Chelsey and Nicohle had to leave early, but Lisa and I, and a sleepy Miss B stuck around for a while longer. We watched the Pelican feeding in the afternoon, and tried to pick out the stars from the new Storm Boy movie. There is a sign stating the leg band colours of the two famous pelicans.
We went for a walk through the aviaries (probably best done after our bird-phobic friend had left), where were saw some rainforest and wetland species.
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| Superb Lyrebird, Adelaide Zoo |
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| Buff-banded Rail, Adelaide Zoo |
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| Blue-winged Kookaburra, Adelaide Zoo |
On the way out, we visited Miss B's favourite animals again.
