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Zoofari…Part 2
So did you read the first part? You can’t skip ahead you know!
So after the super yummy dinner it was time to jump on the bus for the night tour.
First stop was the Lions, Jasiri and his girls. He acted like a sweet little pussy cat showing off for morsels of roo. Even showing off with a bit of a roaring match with his ladies.
Next we stopped by the Manned Wolf, Suzie the Wombat and the Hippos. Bit hard to take pictures in the dark. The manned wolf was a little easier to smell than see, but Suzie was happy to come say hello for a pat and some sweet potato.
Back to our tent for the night. It had a heated floor that was amazing, we all sat around the floor for awhile warming our arses and Hayden decided he was sleeping on the floor.
Up early for showers and ready for the last tour at 7am.
Breakfast with a black rhino, he was just gorgeous. Happily sucking in his favourite branches from anyone and everyone.
We then stopped by to meet and feed a Bongo and then the Cheetahs.
Last, but certainly not least was the African Elephant girls Yum Yum and Cuddles just back from their stroll around the park and doing their morning health checks.
We then made our way back to the lodge for breakfast and checkout. We spent a few more hours checking out the rest of the animals at the zoo..and then headed home.
We had an amazing time on Zoofari…highly recommend it, just awesome!
Zoofari..part 1
(you can clicky through all the pics and links for bigger ones)
This week, as part of the Renault Koleos campaign I have running at All for Women (have you entered the competition to win a new laptop?) we set off on a trip to Dubbo Zoo.
Will split this in to 2 posts, too many lame tourist family holiday snaps that no one is really interested for one post 
We took the long way there through Bathurst, had to do the full bogan thing and visit Mount Panorama. Course we both had to do a lap around each, the kids were most disappointed in the 60km/hr speed limit, but honestly, in places even that is way to fast. Looks nothing like it does on TV, how they do it without crapping their pants every lap I do not know!
Arrived in Dubbo with just enough time to wash the ginormous bugs from the Koleos before check in time for our Zoofari adventure.
The Zoofari lodge is tucked away right at the back of the park, by the time we drove round there we had just enough time to put our stuff in our “tent”, order our dinner and meet the bus for our first tour. You can check out the post on That’s Noice for more details on Zoofari.
First stop our behind the scenes tour was the Sumatran Tigers (I am so bad with remembering names) just as they were being let into their night dens. Wednesday was fasting day (maybe I need to give that a go?) but the keepers had left a new enrichment activity for them, so we got to watch them, from about 3m away attacking large plastic drums hanging form the roof to find the noms. Tigers are a big fav in our family, it was amazing to see them so close up.
Next stop was the Wild Dogs. Must admit, I had never seen or heard of these guys before. But there were really interesting, and such beautiful markings. Keepers waited for us to arrive for feeding time, so we could see the pack and their “peep rally” in full swing. WOW..noisy! Check out a short video clip.
Then we stopped by the Meerkats, damn those little buggers are so cute..love them! Our guide had some tasty treats for them to entice them over to say hello to us.
She saved the best for last for the afternoon tour, we stopped by the large savannah exhibit, with a toot toot of the mini bus horn and one of the 4 boys started to mosey on over to us. Isn’t he gorgeous?! I think his name was Jerry.
We all had a go at feeding him some carrots, and having our hand covered in Giraffe slobber. The kids couldn’t wipe the grin of their face for the rest of the evening.
Next was dinner, OMG the food was beautiful! Lovely 3 course meal. I even did the whole food blogger thing…I generally don’t have the guts to whip the camera out for food pics in a restaurant.
After dinner we went out on the night tour, stay tuned for part 2…..
Budget Garden Makeover
When we moved in, the front gardens were full of a bit of weed and that was about. So many things on the to do list, it’s hard to know where to start.
We finally got around to doing the front garden 2 weeks ago..and woo! nothing has died…….yet!
It was a nightmare just trying to decide what plants to plant. I couldn’t do a garden of a mix of different things, I have a thing about stuff matching.
Didn’t want to spend a fortune either, which after some shopping around seemed near impossible…damn plants are expensive!
I found myself taking a look on eBay…OMG you should see the plants there! 1000′s of them, who’d a thought. We ended up choosing some Purple Dazzler Cordylines, I got 20 of them for $115 all up including postage. That works out around $8 a plant, we had seem them as much as $19 in the nurseries! I also picked up some nandina..only for the manpet, cause I hate them. They were 20 for $30, another bargain compared to the nurseries. The plants faired really well with the postage, as long as you get a good seller who packages them properly.
Add with our soil, and the most expensive rocks there were. I tried to talk myself into the cheap ones, but there were just too ugly and brown, added with the brown house and roof, house would have looked a bit “emo” *hehe*
It looks a little bare at the moment, but once the $140 stick in a pot (weeping maple) grows some leaves, and we plant something in the bottom of it’s pot I think it will look really good.
All up, it came to just under $500. I think that was pretty darn cheap.
I am still of the look out for the perfect weeping Cherry Blossom, just love them, have always wanted one but the right colour and size is hard to come by and the price is heart attack inducing.
Sand Boarding
Last weekend we took the Koleos for a trip up the Central Cost to visit Jake’s sister.
While we were there, we took the kids for a bit of sand boarding, they had a ball. Tho I am not sure who had more fun, Daddy..or the kids. Of course I had a go…HA like I am going to show you those pics!
