Healesville Sanctuary

another round of excursion with my IAP class, actually with everyone in this course :P. before i begin my story, i just want to say that it feels really good to have finished my assingment heheh. i know it's lame and only 1500 words, but hey. i did it.. my first one, hundreds to come.



Now, my journey started with as you can see six degrees celsius in Clayton and by the time we get to healesville, it felt like the temperature dropped 3 degrees.God.. freakin cold there.

this one would be trying to smile as if didnt feel like zero degree.

the tour started here, FYI healesville sanctuary only have animal of australian origin, so emmu, wombats, kanggaru, wallaru, wallabies, the birds of prey, dingo, and for sure tazmanian devil.

i was hoping to see this particular devil in action.. but i guess it's not my luck. the devil was taking his afternoon nap when i got there, so i got a snapshot of the stuffed one instead.

can u see him napping? some devil eh??

dont hate me for this, but honestly i forgot the name of this bird hehe.. but they were let loose in the sanctuary, so you can get an up close look of this bird freely, but you wouldnt want to get too close, they bite. Jingga almost got bitten when i was taking her picture near this bird but dont tell her.. she didnt know. ups...

me listening to heartbeat of different animals. i get to play doctor, so the brown thing you see inside that glass is the heart of a kanggaru, snake, and others. really a snake hearbeat is not something you would want to hear twice

the one place where you could be avoided hehhee.. this sign was in the Australian wildlife health centre, a hospital for injured animals inside the sanctuary.




see this is the actual place for the tazmanian devils, since he's asleep, we took his playground. WE DEVILS!!!


and last but not least, meet "pinky", some tree bird hehe she got yellow tongue and can turn into a tree-bark-like shape when he feels threathen. you know what, pinky here eats mouse *urgh* and our beloved doctor "ronny" fed him by hand. eiuh.. dead mouse ronny.. hellow???

overall, the trip was deliberating... it was nice to get away from buildings n campus centre for a day, the one hour trip was okay, my god... beautiful views but i was sleeping all the way that's why i got no picture of it. would do it again just to see the devil's in action.. roar...