Wow, so here I am again...everything's going so quickly!...... We've just spent a couple of days in Melbourne staying with Emily's cousin's wife, Kate. She is lovely and has been really looking after us! On Tuesday we decided (perhaps not very wisely considering the weather) to go to the Healseville animal sanctuary. It was raining almost all day and, as we found out afterwards, it was actually the coldest day of the year so far for Melbourne! But it was still a really good day! The sanctuary specialises in Australian wildlife so we saw lots of animals that we probably wouldn't anywhere else. We saw more kangaroos, koalas and emus, dingos, wombats, possums, little marsupial mice type things and, my absolute favourite, platypuses! Platypuses look so odd with there otter-like bodies and duck-like bills and feet!
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