Reptile World

Well, for starters it's not really called Reptile World it is really the Australian Reptile Park. I go back to work tomorrow (boo hiss!) after almost three weeks off, so we decided, on the spur of the moment late Friday afternoon, to take Mitchy up to Reptile World near Gosford as we had been planning to do sometime while I was on holidays.

We got there at about 3:30pm and had missed most of the demonstrations (boo!) but as a result got a discount on the entry price (yay!). The first thing we did was watch a demonstration about spiders. The guy was playing around with a couple of Funnel Web spiders. You can see one here on the esky in front of him.

 The guy presenting was quite amusing and we learned some interesting things about funnel web spiders and how to avoid and/or capture them. I personally hope not to have a run in with them at all, but if it did happen I would know what to do - in this case apparently I'm supposed to get Meeks because the most commonly bitten people are young boys and men in the age group 25-40!

After the spider show we wandered to where there were a bunch of kangaroos sitting around waiting to be patted. Mitch loved it!

 

 

Mitch even stared down an emu!

After that we went and looked at the reptiles. They were in these large enclosures - lot's of lizards and snakes and turtles

 

Mitch loved it! Then inside the main building there was another reptile display with crocodiles and snakes and spiders! Here is the biggest, hairiest one I could find

Don't worry it's in a glass box, in a room with a viewing window.

All in all it was a really good afternoon and we were very impressed with the park and Mitch had a great time. We will have to go back again sometime earlier in the day to catch more of the presentations like the crocodile feeding.