Healesville Sanctuary

Healesville Sanctuary

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June 16th 2007
Spent 6 hours in the Healesville Sanctuary. Only cost us each Au$9.50 round trip for the two hour (each way) train and bus fare from downtown Melbourne. Incredibly cheap, compared to many other things here, like food, accommodation and entertainment, which all seem expensive compared to New Zealand. Among all the weird and wonderful animals, bugs, snakes and birds there, we heard an owl bark, le ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more