The Dubbo Zoo and tomorrows plans for Dubbo

Zac and Brent riding Rhino statues


We had a wonderful morning at the Dubbo zoo. Zachery and I walked most of the zoo and Brent kept bringing the car up to meet us at the next exhibit. It was a lovely, sunny, cool morning so it was perfect for walking around the dry dusty tracks. Zachery loved all of the animals and it was so brilliant to see him staring at them, searching for them and spotting them. Previous times when we have been to zoos for him he really hasn't understood what he was looking for in the seemingly empty enclosures, this time he was running for the next enclosure in excitment trying to guess what would be in there.

Zachery told us the colours of most of the animals and also identified a maority of them (excluding the really exotic variities of deer/buffalo etc).

Family photo infront of the Zebra's

Zachery got to feed the giraffes lots of carrotts, he loved it but he was crying while he was waiting in line and other people were fedding the giraffes because he thought "their bellys will be too full when its my turn" haha.

Our sweet little cherub, getting very sleepy by this point.

Daddy and Zaccy both cuddled the wallaby.

Zachery was blown away by the rhinos. He said "look theres a daddy rhino and he has his baby Zaccy rhino"

The Dubbo zoo was a great experience. It VERY spread out and makes you feel as though you are almost in the wild/the bush. It is wonderful to walk and you can tak eyour own food in. We packed a big picnic lunch and at it at the zoo. There is an enormous variety of animals to see and alot of interactive extras you can do - including feeding the giraffes - Its a beautiful family day out.

Zachery was very tired by 1pm so we decided to have a quick look in the gift shop and then head off. Zachery chose a Cheetah toy as he loves cats and he said it was like his grandmas cat, Jasper. Once we left the zoo we went into the Dubbo tourist information centre and picked up alot of information on the surrounding areas. We also picked up information on two places a friend of mine mentioned to me, the Japanese gardens in Dubbo city and the Wellington caves. We have decided we will visit both of these places tomorrow.

Tonight is our last night in the Big 4 caravan park as we are going to try to find a "Free Camp" in our Camps book to stay at tomorrow night so that we can stretch our money a little further for the trip. Hopefulyl we can find somewhere near by. We might go have a look around this afternoon and choose one for tomorrow.