Saturday, October 28, 2006

Featherdale


Since what we do all weekends is simply to stroll around the city and eat eat eat, this time I decided not to give in to the temptation and that we were going to do something different. Ok, last weekend we went to Wollongong but that was a one-off. So the child that still is quite alive in me wanted us to go to Featherdale Wildlife Park. It's in Blacktown, a dreary suburb in Sydney half an hour from Central by train.
Featherdale is a very nice place to spend a few hours. What they basically do there is they save endangered specimen and threatened species, they cure them and help them mate and after a while they set them free again. Well, at least that's what they say... Besides, the fact that they call it a park and not a zoo makes it look better, doesn't it?
This place is also well-known cos you can interact with animals. I had never fed a wallaby before and never seen a koala. In NSW it's illegal to hug and cuddle koalas, you can only pat them. You have to go to Queensland or if you run into a bunch of them in the wild then you can, but they can be a little dangerous cos they have very strong claws. We don't get along very well. I like them though, cos they sleep up to 18 hours a day. Like O. What a blessing...
Wallabies and kangaroos are very friendly and lazy. I did like them a lot. But they jump irrationally so I'm not quite comfortable being around them. Especially in the wild, I'd just run cos they have extremely strong legs and can be quite aggressive. Weird creatures.
My favourites are still snakes. So smooth and kind. If I have a nice and stable job I'm gonna get myself one on my 25th birthday. A python. There are some varieties that don't get too large. I can't keep a three-meter long reptile in a flat. But I'm sure I'll find one with nice colors, not aggressive and with the perfectly V-shaped head. The cutest thing.
There were heaps of birds. So much noise I'd have shot them all down. They makes me uneasy. V. cruel race.
I didn't know that a croc can live up to 130 years and, despite what everybody believes, they can't eat too much cos they have the smallest stomach. They have a chicken thigh a day. Useless creatures. Where's the fun?

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