Australia Trip: Featherdale Wildlife Park

One of our favorite days in Australia was spent at Featherdale Wildlife Park. Originally we thought we would only spend a few hours there, but we ended up spending the entire day! We saw the most amazing animals and even had a chance to get up close and personal with some of them.

Here's a Tasmanian Devil...
he reminds me of a "R.O.U.S." in "The Princess Bride"

Trevor really bonded with this pink cockatoo...
every time he walked by, the bird would scramble across the enclosure to see him.
He even bit a hole in the rim of Trevor's hat!

How cute is this baby koala?
He was hanging on for dear life while his mom crawled around the branches

Robert got to hold a kookaburra.
A little while later, we heard his crazy laughing call.

This has to be the hugest crocodile I've ever seen in real life.
He sat so still, we all thought he was a statue at first.
(That's Trevor behind the glass reacting to his large size.)

How unbelievable...an albino peacock with his feathers out?!
All of the peacocks were showing off that day...they really do shake their tail feathers!
(They are also very loud.)

Ethan and Trevor got up close and personal with this koala.
Koalas sleep 20 hours a day!

Trevor got to feed this adorable wallaby, sort of like a mini kangaroo.
It's some sort of feed inside of a plain ice cream cone.

It was tricky finding a hungry one...
they were just roaming around the park!

This one decided he like the cone better than the feed.

I couldn't get over this crazy pheasant bird...
that yellow hair on his head was almost neon!
(It was hard to get a picture because he kept running around.)

The boys with Grandpa

We also saw the inland taipan (the most venomous snake in the world), wombats (sort of like furry little pigs), frill-necked lizards, emus, the tallest storks ever, and a cassowary (the strangest, dinosauriest bird I've ever seen). An amazing day!