Healesville Animal Sanctuary

We drove for several more hours, including a lunch stop, before coming to a mountainous region. After what seemed like hours of winding roads we ended up at the Healesville Animal Sanctuary. I didn’t go into this zoo with many expectations, but it was absolutely incredible. We got to see almost every well-known native Australian animal up close. We saw emus, koalas, wallabies, kangaroos, a Tasmanian devil, duck-billed platypus, wombats, and many more. One koala even had a baby with it, as pictured below. Several of the areas with the kangaroos and the wallabies had the animals moving around among us. Most of us got to touch a wallaby and get our picture taken with one (as I did below). This animal sanctuary has operating rooms to help injured animals that are brought in because of accidents. It has become a large tourist destination because of the wonderful interaction that is possible in such a place.