"NATURAL"

Last week we took 150 kids to Healesville Sanctuary. I hadn't been there since our kids were much younger. What a great place!!
Even with that many kids in tow it was so nice to be in that natural bushland. The sanctuary has been really well maintained with natural bush settings for each enclosure and plenty of open spaces for those creatures that need it.
The Great Birds of Flight show was simply awesome! We had Jess the Wedge-Tailed Eagle swooping just centimetres from our heads as well as cockatoos, galahs, parrots, hawks and even an Australian buzzard. Jess has been around for 20 years. All the birds were kept in 'natural' surroundings but are very highly trained. Fantastic!
We had a classroom experience where the kids were able to pat a tawny frogmouth, a possum and a snake. They got to watch and listen to the frogmouth crunching as it ate it's lunch of two mice. How 'natural'!