Friday We enjoyed some toasties and coffee before heading to the Yarra Valley, a renowned wine region about an hour northeast from Melbourne. Coffee in Australia either means instant coffee or espresso-based coffee. Australians we sadly discovered, particularly after enjoying delicious coffee all around Vietnam, do not drink filtered coffee. We arrived in Healesville around noon and decided to spend the day at the Healesville Sanctuary. Healesville Sanctuary began as a place where they take care of sick and injured animals (approximately 600 per year) hoping to return them to the wild but sometimes keeping them in captivity for various reasons. We had so much fun and we were able to see kangaroos, emus, wombats, a tasmanian devil, koalas, platypuses, dingos, wallabies, kookaburras, flying foxes (also known as fruit bats) and echidnas. They have various shows
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