Friday, in search of a bit of respite from the heat after a long walk with Ani, we left her at home to rest and we headed south to Wellington Caves… since caves are cool. [They’re cool in both senses of the word, but we went there for the temperature-cool, not the hip-cool.] It was a pretty cave, but not long enough or deep enough for any of us on the tour. We all would have been happy to stay down there another few hours.
They also had a small aviary there, and even though they were in the shade, most of the birds looked like they wanted to go crawl into a freezer for a few hours. I don’t know if you can tell how puffed this galah is, but he’s not comfy.
But one cockatoo was quite social and curious, and decided Ben (or rather Ben’s hat) was his new best friend.
Saturday we went for a bit of a drive. We didn’t have a map or the GPS, so we just drove and turned where we felt like turning – down dirt roads, past farms, over cattle grates, through dry river beds – until we hit a cattle gate that was closed. So then we went home.
And Sunday we went to see the zoo, since I’d only seen parts and Ben hadn’t seen much at all. The circuit is ~6km, and you can drive, bike, or walk. So we grabbed 2 yellow bikes – the nice old fashioned ones that don’t have gears and you pedal backwards to brake – and headed out to see the zoo.
Keeper feeding the monkeys on one of the several monkey islands.
Ben with an elephant (… you’re not the only one, Anna!)
Hot koala
We ran in to the new zoo vet and her husband doing the exact same thing! And since we’re all new Dubb-ites (don’t know if that’s really the term) we decided to test out one of the local restaurants with them later that night. We went to Sticks and Stones – a wood-fired pizza place – and had some great pasta and pizza. Most of the evening was spent comparing notes about bringing our beloved pets over to Oz, and how they were coping with the heat.
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