Tuesday, 20 NOV 2012
Burnie is a small commercial port on the north side of the island state of Tasmania. The capital, Hobart, is all the way around on the south side. We had made a port call in Burnie on our previous cruise to New Zealand and found it to be interesting and charming. This was formerly an important paper manufacturing center, but now they just ship wood chips to Asia for paper factories.
I took an excursion to Wing's wildlife park. This is a family-owned enterprise by a farm family which decided to dedicate one of their seven farms to restoring injured or orphaned wildlife.
They have tame kangaroos
Note the joey in the pouch. This baby is just about to outgrow its cushy home and be ejected by Mom.
Cute koala:
The black swan:
This wildlife farm is in the Gunn's Plains, the valley of the Leven river.
Posted from Tyler's iPad
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