Adventures In Perth–Animal Parks

As you know from last Sunday’s post I have only just moved to Perth in the last few months. Most of my stuff is still in Newcastle waiting to be shipped. So I thought I’d share some of my adventures in my new state. Perth has changes a LOT since I last lived here 9 years ago, so I’ve been enjoying going out and rediscovering it with my adult eyes (I left when I was 14). So here are a few things that I’ve done since I moved here.

Perth Zoo

My sister and I used to go to Perth zoo a few times a year with our cousins before we moved to the east coast so it seemed only right to go back years later with those same cousins and it was a lot of fun. I personally love zoos. I love all animals except snakes and ferrets. The tickets weren’t too expensive either, I got a concession ticket which only cost me $20.50. It hasn’t changed a whole lot since I was last there except the salt water crocodile I used to love going to see died so they’ve got a new one and he’s got a combined indoor and outdoor enclosure now. We spent a good 10-15 minutes watching an elephant have a bath and get stuck in a tire.

She looks so happy

Everybody loves meerkats

AQWA

I remember AQWA when it was called Underwater World and they had dolphin and then seal shows (because all the dolphins died). I went to AQWA with the same cousins I went to the zoo with. I love sea animals, Orca’s are my favourite (I watched Free Willy so many times when I was a kid) but they can’t have them in such a small aquarium like they’ve got here. I loved seeing all the sharks and turtles swimming around. It was pretty expensive compared with most things in Perth, $29 for an adult ticket, but it was still pretty good.




I love animals of any type really so going to zoos and aquariums is definitely my idea of fun.