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National Zoo & Aquarium, Canberra

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National Zoo & Aquarium, Canberra

by losfp on Mon May 28, 2007 10:50 am

Visited the National Zoo & Aquarium in Canberra on the weekend. It's a smallish privately owned zoo right next to the lake, about 5-10 mins out of the city centre... Very intimate, I found you were able to get closer to the animals than a lot of other zoos.

We also went on their "Zooventure" tour, which is brilliant. It goes for 2 hours and takes you behind the scenes where you get to feed all sorts of things by hand. The sound when the tiger grabs a chicken drumstick out of your hand and crunches casually through it like it was nothing is just awesome. Well worth the money for the experience

I didn't get many good pics on this tour though, I stuck the Tokina 12-24 on the camera, and just couldn't get close enough (plus for safety reasons you had to stay behind a line, or in certain areas while feeding so the angles weren't great). Mrs Losfp got some great photos with her 18-200, if she bothers posting them. This is her feeding a cougar...