Caversham Wildlife Park

Last December we went to Caversham Wildlife Park, which is at Whiteman Park near the Swan Valley. Besides going up to Yanchep National Park and the zoo, it's the only place I can think of in WA that you can see Koalas and wombats. Apparently they are both native faunas of the eastern states and not here. If you want to see kangaroos, you can see them all over the place in the country and in the city, just go to Heirisson island and you can see a few of them which are protected. The entrance is $22 for adults and $8 for kids under 14 so for a family of 4 with 2 young kids, it's going to cost $60.


In Caversham, the main attractions are definitely the wombats which gets pretty big, the koalas and the kangaroos.

For the koalas, they actually have a koala enclosure where you are allowed to get really close up to them to take photos and for the kangaroos it's even better, you can feed them and touch them, that is if you dare. They were pretty docile when we were there, but we were told that the males can be quite aggressive.

Besides the usual mammals, they have all kinds of local birds like the kookaburra and parrots.



But the most amazing thing to me is their collection of albino animals, there's peacocks, kangaroos and others. I've never seen albino animals before, except for the white tigers.



And what is a visit to Australia without seeing farm life which they have at Caversham with their collection of farm animals and a sheep shearing show.



I guess at the end of the day, when people come over to Australia, one of the must see and do things is to see real life kangaroos and koalas and 'experience' farm life and Caversham does fulfill that without you having to trek into the wild to see them. But personally for me, nothing beats seeing them in their natural environment and for that, you may have to rough it out a little.