Friday...28 September 2012

On the go early today to go to the Western Plains Zoo here in Dubbo. Huge place. My legs packed it in after the first few exhibits and that was only 1km into a 6kms round tour of the place. Lots to see and do if you are young and fit. They hire bicycles and golf carts or you can walk or drive your own car through. Because our car is so big we tried to hire a golf buggy but they had run out of them so we drove our own car anyway. You drive so far, park up, then walk to an exhibit then repeat the process a couple of dozen more times as you go around the park.
We saw the Meerkats first, they are most entertaining and cute as can be. Not as big as I had thought they were. Then we headed off to see the giraffes. They were all gathered around something a fair way from the fence so just as well I had the trusty binoculars to hand or I would not have seen them at all. From there we went to the hippopotamus enclosure. This big bloke was munching down on the remains of a bale of hay while one of the park blokes gave a bit of a chat about hippos.

We stopped and saw elephants and tigers and then drove slowly around the rest of the zoo just looking from the car windows. The variety of animals is terrific but it all requires a lot of walking. The entry ticket is valid for two days which most people would need to see everything.