Caversham Wildlife Park

Location: Lord Street, Whiteman Park, Whiteman, 6068
Coordinate: S31°50.0641′ E115°56.9114′
Contact: +61 08 9248 1984
Website: http://www.cavershamwildlife.com.au/
Operating Hour: Everyday 9.00 am - 5.30 pm (excluding Christmas Day)

This is the second wildlife park (zoo) that I've been in Australia. The first one was Melbourne. Serene has been few before. However, we found that this is the best so far. This is really a great place to visit, especially there are so many Australia's unique native animals to be seen here.

Here, not only we saw kangaroo, but also we have a close-up encounter with white kangaroo. This is the first time we seen white kangaroo. Besides that, it also has a pouch with a baby inside. Wow, what an experience. Visitors can personally hand-feed kangaroos. Within a minute, there will be lot of kangaroos by your side.

Not all kangaroos has pouch anyway. But anyway, we found this kangaroo quite funny, the way it sitting and scratching its tail.

Another Australia's icon, KOALA. It was lucky day for us. When we visited the area, the koalas were active. The zoo keeper was friendly, and told us lot of information about the koalas. Normally koala sleeps during daytime, but that day it was active and we were lucky. The eucalyptus leaves was put besides the koalas so that it would be easier for the koalas to have a bite. It is really cute and we could feels the fur with the instruction from the zoo keeper.

There were many shows available. One of it is Meet the Wombat & Friends shows. The zoo keeper will bring out their favourite friends to see, touch and learn about. Wombat is the star of the show where one can feel and take a photo with it. Of course this is under the guidance of the keeper. Besides that, there were beautiful parrots to show. We saw lot of these parrots during our journey in Wave Rock, flying freely in the sky.

One thing that really attract me is the education system over here. Small kids are exposed to the natural environment, animals particularly. Since there are lot of animals, and only found in this part of the world, the small kid are exposed on how to take care of themselves and also the animal when bump into each other. During the show, I also learned some information for the first time, but the small kid also knew it before that. Amazing ehh!!!

Another animal that attracted our attention is Kori Bustard. From the other website, found out it is a large bird native to Africa. Male kori bustards are contenders for the world’s heaviest flying birds. During the breeding season, the male performs a "ballon" display by inflating his esophagus by as much as four times its normal size. We were not sure whether what we saw in the park means it was breeding season. It also produce funny sound, which really turn our attention to.

The park now features about 200 species, and more than 2000 head of animals, birds and reptiles; most housed in a walk-through environment. It's a great place to bring along the kids to see all kind of animals over here, especially unique Australia wildlife. It's really a great place to visit while one in Perth.