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Blogs from Healesville, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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April 2nd 2012
En ce lundi matin nous démarrons tôt le travail, enfin surtout Nico 1h avant moi car comme d’hab il tombe du lit vers 6h30. Vu qu’on a prévu d’aller à Healesville Sanctuary pour la journée, c’est mieux de commencer tôt. On scie, on coupe, on taille, on ramasse et on brouette, bref on jardine ! Il y a énormément de lapins sauvages, et Nico voit une solution à ce fléau : poser des collets pour en attraper quelques-uns !! Ah le méchant vilain pas beau !! Je n'en mangerai pas !! On décolle en de fin de matinée pour aller à Healesville, qui se trouve à une demi-heure selon Tiana., Je dis « selon Tiana » car notre plan n’indique pas toutes les routes et les panneaux n’indiquent pas toutes les villes… donc avec tout ça ... read more
March 24th 2012
We took another trip to see more animals, this time at the Healesville sanctuary, a relatively small but more natural and open. They even have an animal hospital, which visitors can walk around and sometimes watch surgery. We saw the cutest little Tasmanian Devils and they just reminded me of some people I know back home! The sanctuary only has animals native to this part of Australia, which was quite scary as there was a whole poisonous snake enclosure but fortunately not big crocs! The weather is starting to get cooler now as Autumn approaches but we had some awesome sun over labour day weekend (unfortunately I was working most of it!) I’ve been out a few times into the city with different friends (but not Matthew because he was all tucked up in bed!) my ... read more
November 14th 2010
V Healesville Sanctuary je ZOO, ktore je specializovane na cisto Australske zvierata. Nachadza sa pomerne blizko a tak dnesny vylet bol len taky kratucky. Je to len cca 20 km od miesta kde byvam. Trocha sa tu rozprsalo, ale nastastie sme v case navstevy tejto ZOO mali len zamracene. Vstupne bolo 25 AUD, ale na tieto ceny som si uz dost zvykol. Nabuduce si istotne zoberiem ovela viac penazi. Tak 1000 AUD na tyzden je akurat a to ani nezartujem. Ale spat do ZOO. Urobil som priblizne 100 fotiek. V expozicii boli tieto zvierata: Emu, Koala, Kengura, Wallaby (vackovec podobny kengure, ale ovela mensi), Vtakopysk, Tasmansky diablik, Netopier, vtactvo a pes Dingo. Mali to tam dobre spravene a navstevnici mohli vojst do ohradenych zon a priblizit sa uplne blizko k zvieratam. Tak napriklad kengury boli vo ... read more
July 6th 2010
"It'll be cold" they said. "It's their bloody winter!" said others. "You are an idiot" said one. "I hate you" - he didn't really say that. As we walked out of Melbourne airport in flip flops and board shorts we began to realise that people had been trying to tell us something. What, we didn't know, but we found out when we were told it was the coldest day in Melbourne in years. We spent the flight giggling at stuff the Aussie people were saying, to be honest we haven't stopped. We heard a lady actually use the word "streuth." They're easy to make fun of but we are soon realising their country, and particularly Melbourne, is better than ours. We met up with our good pals Phil, Neil, Gareth and his Mrs. Colette. The price ... read more
March 22nd 2010
We left Woodside Beach, thinking we'd continue west along the coast to Melbourne, stopping first at Phillip Island to see the penguins. However, a wind came up and we had quite a buffetting, so instead went to Leongatha and booked into the caravan park to spend the rest of the day, out of the wind. On hearing that cooler weather with some rain was predicted for the next few days down south and for Melbourne, we changed our plans and today headed north. Being warm and in sunshine - that's what it's all about (or is that the hokey pokey?). We saw the penguins on Phillip Island a few years ago .. we'll be back another day to see them again. The drive towards Warragul was lovely, beautiful farmland though some parts were so steep, we ... read more
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March 1st 2010
On Saturday, I got to go to the Healesvilles Sanctuary. It was an hour outside of Melbourne, and I had to wake up super early (10 A.M.) The sanctuary was basically an open zoo. They also had an animal hospital where we got to see a wombat with a broken pelvis...it was really sad. He was run over by a car, and the woman at the hospital said that because of the impact his bladder was also torn. She said hopefully they will do surgery on him and he will be all fixed up in no time. It was really sad, but our guide kept telling us how if people see the animals on the side of the road, they will try to help them. I thought that was really cool because in America, we don't ... read more
