{"id":4720,"date":"2016-03-27T22:41:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T08:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2016-04-01T21:48:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T07:48:15","slug":"werribeezoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/werribeezoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Werribee Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

We just got back from Melbourne, Australia. Expect to see more photos in the coming days. I think I took 32GB worth of photos…I don’t think I ever took that much before. This time I figured if I’d lug 20+lbs of camera along, I might as well shoot freely.<\/p>\n

Here’s a series of shots I took one day visiting the Werribee Zoo<\/a>. It’s a bit like a mashup between a traditional zoo and a safari experience. So many of the non-dangerous animals are somewhat free to roam about and you can take these bus excursions through the park to see them. I figured it would be a different experience for the little one.<\/p>\n

It was a fun experience, but despite knowing that you can’t have animals act on cue, I couldn’t help being slightly disappointed we didn’t see any of the traditional Australian animals…I didn’t see koalas, kangaroos, wombats, etc on this particular trip. \u00a0But I did manage to snap a few shots of other cool animals there.<\/p>\n

WAIT, if you want to simulate the experience of being on the bus ride through the park, you need to play this song in the background….over, and over, and over again. It’s a bit surprising the bus tour operators had not become criminally insane yet hearing this.<\/p>\n

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\"Silverback

Silverback Gorillas<\/p><\/div>\n

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Not 10 seconds after this shot, this gorilla pounded it’s chest and stormed towards a noisy group of school children. Thank goodness for thick glass?<\/p><\/div>\n

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The emus walked right up over the rope line and said hello to us.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lion

Lion cubs only a few months old<\/p><\/div>\n

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Prairie Dog<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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