Day 8 - Dubbo Zoo

Slept in until 7.30 omg.....unheard of. Probably as it was 11 deg. Off to the Zoo we go, lovely setting, great pens for the animals, obviously well cared for. One Black Rhino on show the other 7 were out the back. Zoo keeper gave a really interesting talk about the Black and White Rhinos.

The Giraffes were plentiful and their enclosure like most of the others have the fences in a trench so they can't escape but great for photos, giving an uninterrupted view.

Hippo's were hiding in their pond just saw their snouts sticking out of the water, Meerkats were very cute posing for a photo, 4 Asian Elephants were very active, apparently the Bull was going to mate with the little elephant, there were official photographers waiting to film the event.

The White Rhinos, Cheetah, Otters, Platypus, African Lion and the Sumatran Tiger, didn't want to be seen today. The Ostriches were surprising huge compared to our Emus. There were 7 different varieties of 'Deer' like animals. Ring Tailed Lemurs were cute running around with their 2 ft long tails in the air. Finally the Galapagos Tortoise - he was big, not sure what he was trying to do but he certain wasn't succeeding climbing up from the side of the smaller Tortoise. Thank goodness we hired the buggy, we parked between 2 or 3 exhibits and walked in between, still limping by the end.

Had lunch at the Cafe once we dropped off the Buggy. Did the Tourist Circuit which went past a Winery and Observatory. Did a quick top up at Woolworths, back to Big 4. Will have my shower before 5pm today, yesterday was cool water brrrr.
Filled up the water tanks and we are good to leave in the morning.

Wayne's leg is nearly healed, not sore now, but he is limping so the muscle must still be repairing, stitches look clean and dry, should be able to remove them tomorrow.Read more