Healesville Sanctuary

Kathryn and Phillip took us on another trip to the Dandenong Ranges, about an hours drive out of Melbourne. It was beautiful scenery, lots of lush forest and huge trees that grow in perfectly straight lines.
We went to the William Ricketts Sanctuary, a walk through the forest with 90 aboriginal clay sculptures worked into the trees along the …

We had to get up at 3.30am, to catch our flight to Melbourne! They nearly didn't let Dominic travel as they said his Visa had been cancelled! After a stressful wait, and a phone call to Australia, they eventually managed to sort it out, but could give no explanation for it. I was glad not to have to go on my own!! Security was quick and easy and my …

20.10.11
After a 9 hour train ride I finally arrived in Melbourne. Gaetano picked me up and took me straight to his mum's house for a nice dinner :) The food was good but I just can't wait to get to bed.

21.10.11
Today I just hung out at home, lounged on the couch, watched some TV and just enjoyed not having to run anywhere. So I …

Our host, Vic Fitzpatrick, has brought us to Healesville National Sanctuary. This extensive sanctuary has all species indigenous to Australia, including some very rare, nearly extinct animals that we were able to see in natural surroundings. It sometimes felt that we were the intruders in this sanctuary and that the animals were quite at home. …

Here's a video of a Koala at the Healesville Sanctuary. Apparently, they sleep 20 hours a day and we were lucky to catch one with it's eyes open. Reminds me of some of the people I've worked with in the past.
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We took a lovely drive through the amazing landscape of the Yarra Valley to Healesville, which we found, in torrential rain and without the aid of Sat Nav! We passed lots of wineries on the way, but didn't call in for a free sample at any!
The sanctuary is a fantastic set up, very well kept and looked after animals, and they even have an animal …

You may have seen in one of my previous entries a mention of the Healesville Sanctuary, around an hour's drive outside Melbourne in the rural Yarra Valley region. It's a lovely little place which takes in and looks after native species of Australia including kangaroos, emus and of course, KOALAS, as Australians keep on reminding me, aren't bears, …

We hired a little car from the Thrifty around the corner from our house and then the two of us and our Irish house mate Kelly headed over to the Yarra Valley which is about 1.5 hours drive out of Melbourne.

The tom tom guided us towards more Welsh looking country side and eventually to the small town of Healesville and its wildlife …

I spent last weekend in Melbourne in a desperate bid to halt the slow deterioration of my thought processes brought on by an acute lack of Things To Do.
We'd planned to go to Healesville Sanctuary ($22, probably only worth it if its sunny and you can do the whole day) in Yarra Valley and even though it was raining when we woke up we borrowed …

We have heard so much about the beautiful country side of Victoria and its vast wineries so we opted to avail a private tour of the Dandenong Ranges via the ATWAD Tour.

So here's the trip:



-Morning tea in the middle of a forest park where you have the liberty to feed lyrebirds
-Puffing Billy steam …

After the bit of relaxing I had done in Melbourne, it was off to Healesville, a quaint little town an hour away from the big city. I was signed up to do volunteer work for a week on an organic farm through a company called WWOOF (Willing Workers On ...

... like a thousand lasers. We followed its elegant weaving right through the Yarra Ranges National Park and over to Healesville, to 'The Sanctuary' - where it all happened.. The Sanctuary It's a pleasant enough setup and specialises in native ...

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Healesville Sanctuary is one of Australia’s most sacred wildlife sanctuaries. There were over a hundred animals who were orphaned or injured and now in rehabilitation.  It was amazing to see kangaroos, koalas, dingos, emus, wombats (sleeping), ...

Visited Healesville animal sanctuary with Chris and Deb (to take in some native Aussie wildlife) before seeing the Victorian girls Under 19s smash Felstead boys school, and a last big night out in Melbourne. Before the sanctuary got to see the local ...

2nd try: Healesville Koala Sanctuary and Yarra Valley Wineries. We made it this time! blog will be updated soon x Wel, laten we het nog eens proberen dan. Vorige keer waren we te laat om nog binnen te gaan, deze keer hebben we het wel gehaald. Het was ...

... up but we're waiting for a special occasion to open it (it's more precious than champaign). Another winning attraction of Healesville for Karen was visiting the Cheesefreaks cafe. Yes, our Karen got to fullfil her life long ambition of sitting in an ...

So we decided to go to the Healesville Sanctuary. We spent the morning looking for apartments but with all those open house days you just can't get an answer right away. After some places we (or especially I) got a bit sick of it so we left for ...

After bidding goodbye to Birdwood Cottage we visited the nearby Healesville Sanctuary, a beautiful nature park that is home to lots of native Australian animals. We saw loads of creatures including: - Wombats: including teenage male named Stuart ...

Final full day in Aus so we thought we would do the tourist bit and visit a wildlife sanctuary. Healesville Sanctuary is well worth a visit. Loads to see and very well presented. Had a great day out.  Off to Singapore tomorrow on the first leg of ...