Billabong Sanctuary Townsville

Um 08:00 genossen wir Frühstück am sonnigen Balkon unseres Zimmers, die Ruhe wurde gestört durch einen kurzen Feueralarm den unser Toaster ausgelöst hat ;-)
Im Anschluß daran haben wir noch zwei entspannte Stunden am Salzwasserpool verbracht, bevor wir uns auf den Weg nach Süden Richtung Townsville machten. Dabei fuhren wir ca. 240 km auf dem …

We stopped in Townsville with the main purpose to go visit the Billabong Sanctuary around 20km from the town. We booked our tickets for the following morning and first set out to discover the town of townsbville, it had a cute beach next to the marina and was a pretty, if a little like the town from the Truman Show.

That evening we …

... for all your emails as ever. Liz and Simon xxxxx Monday 23rd February This morning we headed to the Billabong Sanctuary which is a sanctuary for Australian animals where you can go and have a truly interactive day with the animals. Seeing we have ...

... to the more favourable conditions we've finally managed to achieve something during the day and our visit to The Billabong Sanctuary didn't disappoint. Basically a zoo where the less danderous species are free to roam about, it concentrates on mammals ...

... the hotel. Townsville has been well worth the journey for our trip to Maggie Island but sadly, we never did go to the Billabong sanctuary. Hopefully, I will get to hold a Koala futher down the road. We will be heading back now towards Brisbane (where we ...

Entry containing 14 photos titled: Billabong Sanctuary

... , but it is top of a long list of places to dive next! Instead we made the most of the time and opted for visiting the Billabong Sanctuary. How could we resist when the time table read; 10:00am Hold a Koala, 10:30 Hold a Wombat, 11:00 Hold a Cockatoo, ...

... 2 nights there in order to see a bit more of the town.  The main place we wanted to visit was the Billabong wildlife sanctuary just south of the town, where we had heard you can cuddle koalas and womabts, so we were very excited about ...

... langen Highway war schon etwas fad. Wir fuhren gleich durch Townsville durch und besuchten das ca. 20km südlich gelegene Billabong Sanctuary. Dort konnten wir Känguruhs streicheln, Krokodile, Cassowaries, Koalas und Wombats aus nächster Nähe ...

... .    Next day we got up early, ate our normal breakfast of peanut butter and apricot jelly sandwhiches and went to the Billabong Sanctuary 17km south of town.  We almost ran out of gas on the way, but filled up with $70 worth at $1.23 a ...

... knuddeln! Wetter: der Sommer ist zurueck - sonnig und sehr heiss. Auf dem Weg nach Airlie Beach besuchten wir den Billabong Sanctuary Zoo. Nebst den interessanten Erzaehlungen der Ranger ueber die Tiere, darf man die Koalas, Wombats, Opossum, ...

... for one night so we skipped that and took the two ladies advice from the information centre and went to a place called the Billabong Sanctuary. Its a wildlife park which is really interactive and it beat any zoo we'd ever been to. The animals just roam ...