Caversham Wildlife Park

I wasn't in Australia long before I was itching to see some Australian natives other than Matt!  We drove to Whiteman Park, not far from his house.  It's a great park with pools, playgrounds, tons of walking trails and 'bush' (or forest if you're speaking American!) to explore.  We'll probably go back and explore further on another day, but on this particular day, we were on a mission!  We headed to Caversham Wildlife Park (which is at Whiteman Park, to avoid confusion) to see some animals.  Make sure you check out the previous post with pictures of this adventure!

Think of Caversham like a zoo, but only with Australian animals. We spent several hours here looking at everything from birds, Quokkas (google it....they're cute!), possums, wallabies, sugar gliders, turtles, dingos, and crocs to petting koalas, kangaroos and wombats!  It was everything I hoped for! They have a huge open area where Kangaroos roam free!! There were probably somewhere between 50-70 kangaroos in this area, from huge ones to brand new Joeys.  They had food available to feed them, so we took our time wandering, feeding, and petting.  This is where I also experienced the rowdy nature of native Aussies, as an amorous pair of Roos had no problem showing their affection for each other in front of everyone....shocking! We headed over to pet an incredibly cute, fat wombat before heading to the koalas.  These things are beyond cute.  We went into their habitat, and were able to pet them and get pictures with them as they chilled among the eucalyptus branches.  After spending time with the koalas we wandered around to look at other animals.  Before we left we had one more stop to see the Koalas.  When we got there, they were closing the habitat, but we were lucky enough to be let in, and we had the place to ourselves! They had just brought out fresh eucalyptus for the critters (there were about 12 of them, ranging from just 6 months old to 6 years!) so they were all active and munching!  We are so lucky that we went back, because (for reasons I can not figure out) non of the pictures or video from our first encounter with them are on my camera! I'm bummed that I don't have a picture with me in it, but I'm so happy to have the last few pictures and videos that we took.  I loved this place so much, that I wont mind going back and getting the pictures I really want though!

I have some fun videos, once I figure out how to upload them! That is my next mission. 

Since we missed out on some of our Koala pictures, we tried to recreate one with the most stunning native Aussie of them all!!  Floyd is Matt's dog, although he is basically mine since he adores the ground I walk on!  He didn't really appreciate that we tried to exploit his good looking mug for this picture, but it'll do!

Floyd

Love, Kelsey