Territory Wildlife Park

Tuesday 16th
This day was one we had been waiting for, for awhile. This park is not far down the road and we have driven past it a lot and heard about it a lot so we were very excited to finally be going! After we paid our entrance fee we first saw a snake!

There is glass in between us!
We then walked to the Nocturnal House and then caught the train to the sandbar. Our kids were very excited about riding on the train.

We had to all squeeze on together at times but no body minded. It was a big adventure!

At the sandbar there were Barramundi and Whiprays. He is feeding a Whipray now. They only sting you when they get scared and hot water curers the sting so they have a thermos on the sand if needed!

A Whipray as it swam past us.

We were then given worms to hold out and these fish would spit at us and we would then have to drop the worms for them to eat. They were very accurate too!!! We got a little wet.

We then headed to the flight deck which had an excellent birds display. They were so well trained and as she talked they let different birds out and it was really interesting. They kids loved it as the birds fly quite close to the audience. They get food treats all the time for their good performance. She has an owl on her hand.

This kite bought his fish over on the stick near where we were sitting to eat.

The kids got to have a photo with a wedge tail eagle!

They all wanted to be in the photo with this big one! He was the size of Manning! It was then back to the main station for some early lunch then some snake holding time!

Zane and Josiah got the first hold.

Then Manning and Kimberly. You weren't meant to pat the head or play with the tail as that makes her angry! Manning couldn't help himself and Kimberly was a little worried that the snake may bite her for what Manning was doing!

It was then Baylee and Ethans turn. Baylee was a little worried where the head was going.

Then Kimberly wanted to go again herself to feel how heavy the snake was.

We headed to the Aquarium where there is an walk through tunnel aquarium. That was great as you really got close to the animals.

Catch this one swimming by!

This salty is just relaxing.

The whiprays would swim over top of you in the tunnel. It was good as we had just seen them feeding then to come and see their mouths from underneath made more sense to the kids.

This is a sawfish.You can't see it's nose very well but it does look like a chain saw.

This turtle kept coming up to the glass face to face with the kids. He was nice.

The salty was sleeping under the water and the kids were feeling a little sleepy too. If you were on top of the water you could not see him at all!! He was flat on the bottom on the sand!

Baylee and the Barranudi he caught!! A bit tough eating though I was told!!!

This is for those creative wood sculpturing friends of ours!That is the stand for the notice board.

And these wooden seats were very nice in the bird avairy. Except you had to be careful where you sat as the pigeions were directly above!
It was an excellant day and we were nearly the last ones to leave at 5pm after getting there at 9am. A big fun day out!