Port Douglass Wildlife Sanctuary

We fell into town around 10:30AM and needed something to do while they readied our room at the Sheraton Mirage Resort. With a few hours to spare we decided to back track just a couple of miles from the resort to a wildlife park we had driven by on the way. It looked small and not at all grand but perfectly sleepy enough to help us spend 2 hours without getting lost in a new area and never finding our way back to the long sought after resort swimming pools.

What an amazing surprise. This turned out to be the little sanctuary that could. The guide, Peter, was awesome, the life unbelievably vibrant and diverse, and we kinda had the place to ourselves. I’ll let the photos tell the story.

No clue what type of bird this is

I tried to tell him to apply sunscreen

I spy...

Koala kuddling

Roos eating

Talk to the hand...

This wallaroo is part of the BALCO investigation

Slightly more colorful than our NYC pigeons