Healesville Sanctuary

After Wilsons Promontory, we visited Healesville Sanctuary, one of the Zoos Victoria sites. At Healesville, all the animals are Australian. The day was overcast and lightly rainy, but not enough to interfere with our enjoyment of the animals.

They had displays of wombats and Tasmanian devils, but the animals were not visible when we went by. They also had a platypus on display, but the lighting was too dim to be able to get a photograph. Too bad, as we never got a platypus photo on the whole trip, though we did see them in zoos twice.

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Cuddly little koala. Actually they have some sharp claws, and are pretty compactly built. They sleep about 20 hours per day.

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Mama koala and baby.

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Echidna! (Ingrid's favorite Aussie mammal)

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Couple of red kangaroos.

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Tree kangaroo.

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Australian white ibis, prolific around the sanctuary, well-chased by small children in the picnic areas.

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Some variety of nightshade.

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Another view.

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The only Tasmanian devil we saw the entire trip, but he sure is cute!

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White-browed Wood Swallow

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Female gang-gang cockatoo.

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Pacific black duck.

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Baby salt-water crocodile. Very cute, but they don't stay that way.

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Unidentified Australian lizard.

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Eastern Bearded Dragon.

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Frill-necked lizard.

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Eclectus Parrot.

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Not diamond doves, but what are they?

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Stone bush curlew.

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Bubi! (Someone we know has a cockatiel named that.)

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Scaly-breasted Lorikeets.

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Pink bottlebrush.

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Pademelon with joey.

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Female Superb Lyrebird.

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Dingo.

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