Melbourne Wildlife Parks?

[Mel-Visitor]

When I lived in Adeliade, I remember visiting the Cleland wildlife park - does melbourne have any wildlife parks?

[glen]

hi m-V,



We have the Melbourne Zoo in the city, also there is the Werribee Open Plains Zoo which is just west of the city and it is like an African safari park with rhinos and zebras etc.



Then to the north east we have Heallesville Santuary which is an animal park focusing mainly on Australian animals.



There is another one on the way to Phillip Island but I have forgotten the name <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



They are the main ones.



There is some other farm animal parks like Chesterfield Farm where you can go and take kids to say hello to sheep, pigs and other farm animals.



What sort of animals did they have in the Cleland wildlife park?



Cheers, Glen

[Mel-Visitor]

Dingos, Koalas, Kangaroos - that sort of thing. I also remember one albino kangaroo completely white - he/she was which was a pretty unique site for me.

[hugodiaz]

Does anyone have some pictures. Searchin the internet from here can often lead to skewed results. Pictures would really be helpful. Wildlife parks really interest me, so please help me out.



Cheers.

[glen]

at the following website you will gets heaps of good photos:



[url="http://www.zoo.org.au/"]http://www.zoo.org.au/[/url]

[url="http://www.zoo.org.au/education/factsheets.htm"]http://www.zoo.org.au/education/factsheets.htm[/url]

[Mel-Visitor]

Nice links there glen <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[Guest]

[quote name='Mel-Visitor' post='3040' date='Jun 10 2007, 07:17 AM']When I lived in Adeliade, I remember visiting the Cleland wildlife park - does melbourne have any wildlife parks?[/quote]



The Wild Life Park you are thinking of is Wild Life Wonder Land on the Bass High Way on the way to Philip Island.You can hold the animals, very good food, friendly staff & i think its great for young & old,Talk to the birds & they anwser you, feed the Roos by hand,Baby koalas,Baby Joeys.baby skinks.baby wombat Milly,Dingos,Emus.snakes to see, some of them just born & many more animals to see & touch.im from the UK & my visit to the WLP is always a first on my list when im in Australia each yr for me to go to the Wild Life Wonder Land it makes my holidays just Great.

The Shaman Lady,,

[Guest]

[quote name='hugodiaz' post='3152' date='Jun 28 2007, 10:05 AM']Does anyone have some pictures. Searchin the internet from here can often lead to skewed results. Pictures would really be helpful. Wildlife parks really interest me, so please help me out.



Cheers.[/quote]Go to WildLife Wonder Land you will find pics there.I have potos of a few of the animals if you want them email me theshamanlady@aol.com im in the UK at the moment.xx

[glen]

thanks Peter. I saw it on TV a month back and it looks like they have made some big improvements at Cranbourne RBG.

[xflibble]

Adding my vote for the botanical gardens at Cranbourne. I spent a day walking around the surrounding bushland and saw a bandicoot, an echidna and lots of birds. The spring flowers are all out as well, so it was quite spectacular.

[glen]

I have never seen a wild bandicoot <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[roentarre]

I heard rumour that the birds are migrating south to Victoria because of drought...

[glen]

which birds? <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[roentarre]

The latest I heard were kingfishers. Yes, they are not that common in this part of Australia.



And I heard a report that there is this rare blue bird (I cannot remember the name anymore) spotted in Armadale lately.

[Guest]

[quote name='theshamanlady' post='4437' date='May 3 2008, 10:29 PM']The Wild Life Park you are thinking of is Wild Life Wonder Land on the Bass High Way on the way to Philip Island.You can hold the animals, very good food, friendly staff & i think its great for young & old,Talk to the birds & they anwser you, feed the Roos by hand,Baby koalas,Baby Joeys.baby skinks.baby wombat Milly,Dingos,Emus.snakes to see, some of them just born & many more animals to see & touch.im from the UK & my visit to the WLP is always a first on my list when im in Australia each yr for me to go to the Wild Life Wonder Land it makes my holidays just Great.

The Shaman Lady,,[/quote]





I worked there and agree it is a great place to visit. Ask to have a cuddle of Grace and Lollie, 2 baby wombats that I raised on the bottle <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/im Not Worthy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />