Sydney in Three Days... Part 2

As mentioned in Part 1, this post is all about Featherdale Wildlife Park! We spent several hours there on our last day exploring Sydney.

What made this park unique from other zoos closer to the city centre was that it focused on native Australian wildlife. So you won't find elephants, rhinos, or giraffes here, but you do get to see a lot of kangaroos, wallabies, and koalas:

And the best part is, you get to interact with them!

Well, maybe not the wombats:

In addition to the marsupials you would expect in Australia, we saw crocodiles, dingos, bats, snakes, and a variety of native birds...

... including, the dreaded cassowary! (a.k.a. modern day raptor)

The deadliest bird in the world

We also saw some cute farm animals...

This is what goats look like when they're begging for food

... and as we were leaving, got the opportunity to hold a 6-month-old wallaby!

Great day!

And to end it, in true "Andy and Jasmine" fashion, we stopped for dinner that night at the Australian Heritage Hotel in Sydney to try their famous kangaroo pizza:

Not bad! Tasted like beef jerky...

And that concludes our time in Sydney and our year-long trip down under!

Stay tuned for one last blog post: our NZ recap...