Yarra Valley with Josh and Jody

To introduce Josh and Jody to a little bit of rural Victoria, we left the city bound for Healsville. We'd heard good things about the Healsville Wildlife Sanctuary and it was pretty good. It had a good selection of Ausi animals - snakes, 'roos, Tasmanian devils, birds of prey, dingos, platypus to name a few.



The birds of prey display was a clear highlight, this giant was one of the biggest birds of prey in Australia. He is still young so didn't do a lot of flying around which made it far easier to capture on camera than the others swooping over the crowd.



One of the many deadly snakes....





We called in at one of the many wineries on the way home for some tasting of wine and fudge but we'd run out of time well before we could do any justice to the area. We'll definitely be back though.