On Monday May 17th, I was able to go on a school excursion with the year 5/6. They went to a place called Healesville Sanctuary. It is like a zoo, but it only has Australian animals, so when I was given the opportunity to go, I took it in an instant!
We had about 40 students on the trip, 4 teachers and a mum, I was given a group of 7 students. Together we adventured through the different viewing areas. It was a very interesting set-up at Healesville, some parts you are able to walk into where the animals are and touch them (if they come to you). This was the case for the kangaroos and wallabies enclosures. Unfortunately, when I got there, the kangaroos were all sleeping and chilling out, so they never came close enough to you. But I did get to see them up close anyways. While I was walking around with the kids, we walked past the dingo enclosure (obviously, these guys were behind glass... just in case) BUT, as we walked through the back, my group of students and myself met 2 "zoo" keepers and they
were taking 2 dingoes for a walk. Since there weren't any big crowds around, we were allowed to pet the dingoes! They were really cute... obviously dangerous, since of course a dingo stole a baby, but at Healesville they were cuties!
The school group also got to go on a special tour of the bird enclosures, where we got to touch some Australian birds. Then we went to the "Birds of Prey" show, where the birds fly over your heads (honestly so close, that if you lifted your hand you could touch the bird).
Other animals that I saw: wombats, platypi, a tasmanian devil, a whole boat load of birds, pellicans.
We had about 40 students on the trip, 4 teachers and a mum, I was given a group of 7 students. Together we adventured through the different viewing areas. It was a very interesting set-up at Healesville, some parts you are able to walk into where the animals are and touch them (if they come to you). This was the case for the kangaroos and wallabies enclosures. Unfortunately, when I got there, the kangaroos were all sleeping and chilling out, so they never came close enough to you. But I did get to see them up close anyways. While I was walking around with the kids, we walked past the dingo enclosure (obviously, these guys were behind glass... just in case) BUT, as we walked through the back, my group of students and myself met 2 "zoo" keepers and they
were taking 2 dingoes for a walk. Since there weren't any big crowds around, we were allowed to pet the dingoes! They were really cute... obviously dangerous, since of course a dingo stole a baby, but at Healesville they were cuties! The school group also got to go on a special tour of the bird enclosures, where we got to touch some Australian birds. Then we went to the "Birds of Prey" show, where the birds fly over your heads (honestly so close, that if you lifted your hand you could touch the bird).
Other animals that I saw: wombats, platypi, a tasmanian devil, a whole boat load of birds, pellicans.
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