Wildlife World

The good thing about Christmas falling over a weekend is that today and tomorrow are public holidays. We decided to take advantage of Row's day off as he hasn't taken any leave over this festive period to go to the Wildlife World in Darling Harbour. After our mishap last time, we took our receipt with to see if they would let us in with that as each ticket comes with a bar code and is scanned for admittance. The weather was miserable and overcast but most of the activities at this park are indoors except for the koalas. The queues to get into the park and aquarium were ridiculously long and we were very tempted to just go home and not deal with this; seeing how long the queue was made us question how busy it would be inside. I queued up with Justin while Row went to find out if we would be allowed admittance on our receipt but because it was so busy, there was no one to assist us in our query and there was nobody manning the pre-bought tickets stile so we decided to scan the tickets ourselves and Voila! We gained admittance. It was quite busy inside but not chaotically so, however, there were a lot of prams and a lot of children milling around so keeping a tight rein and a keen eye on Justin proved to be hard work. The first part of the park is quite dark but Justin was so interested in the spiders and ants that he didn't seem too perturbed by the darkness. We saw lots of insects, some frogs and snakes, a huge crocodile, some crocodile hatchlings, a few baby crocodiles, koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, bilbies amongst other things. Among the animals were different life-size Lego sculptures which is a new exhibit in both the Wildlife World and the aquarium (which hadn't yet started when we went last time) so that was another draw card, more for Row and I than for Justin. Towards the end of park, Justin started losing interest and growing wary of the noises and darkness which didn't affect him earlier so we put it down to hunger and tiredness. We finished off and went in search for food.....calamari and chips...which we ate next to the harbour. That's what I love about Sydney, there is always fresh fish and calamari somewhere around.

Looking for the small crocodiles

Row and Justin with Lego exhibit

Looking at ants

Another Lego exhibit

Justin says, "Snakes go sssssss"

Look at the dragons!

No Just, not a monkey, a koala!

Calamari and chips for lunch