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QantasLink took us to Dubbo on-board this zoo-themed aircraft. |
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Feeding time at the giraffe pen. |
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A long neck and long legs can sometimes be a burden. |
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A giraffe’s tongue can be up to 40cms in length. |
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Meet “Cuddles” the Elephant, who has called the zoo home since December 1977. |
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Cuddles likes to wave to zoo guests. |
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Cuddles is getting his foot brushed clean. |
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An elephant never forgets. |
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All of the animals roam freely in gigantic paddocks, however the public are totally safe at all times. |
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The King of the Jungle lounging in the sun. |
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A koala decided to join us for lunch. |
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As did this carefully handled python. |
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Kuringai the Echidna |
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Many of Africa’s most well-known animals are represented at the zoo. |
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This white-haired gibbon was having the time of his life swinging around the branches of his tree. |
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Bison |
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A massive tortoise. |
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Siameng Apes are vegetarians. Here is one eating part of an apple we threw in to him. |
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African Wild Dogs at dinner-time. |
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Several massive chunks of raw meat were delivered to the herd. |
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Meetkats, with one of the newborn babies with its back to us in this photo. |
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One of the adult meerkats on lookout during feeding time. |
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The fastest animal on earth – the Cheetah. |
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Up close with a giraffe. |
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A carefully managed deliverance of a carrot to a waiting giraffe. |
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The Zoofari Lodges are very large in size, with full ensuite facilities. It’s more of a villa than a tent. |
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Queen size beds inside some of the lodges. |
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Lodges have two single beds and a large couch, providing plenty of room for the kids. |
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Entree at dinnertime. Thin-crust pizza slices with cherry tomatoes. Delicious! |
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My main, being Atlantic salmon on a bed of linguini with pistacio nuts. |
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All of a sudden, the lights went out and my camera flash spotted this tiger lurking in his enclosure, hence the eyes. |
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Feeding the tigers up close. At night they sleep inside an enclosure. |
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This one loved showing off for his meal. |
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Happy the hippo was treated to a large bale of hay. |
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This echidna demolished his meal of millworms in record time. |
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One of the rarest animals in the world – a Bongo…rumoured to be less than 1000 left in the wild. |
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