Scarlett and I spent Friday night at Taronga Zoo at Roar and Snore, where we got to experience the zoo at night and early in the morning with only a few others. It's a brilliant campsite set up in a spot offering amazing views of the city and harbour, you sleep in great tents on proper beds with duvets and get dinner and tours of the zoo too. On Friday night after drinks and nibbles the zoo keepers brought snakes and lizards for us to meet, then after dinner we set off on a 2 hour torchlit walk around the zoo in the dark. It was great fun having the place to ourselves and hearing the lions roaring in the dark. We got to bed at about 11pm and then woke at 6am for breakfast and some fantastic behind the scenes action.
We went into the giraffe exhibit to hand feed the giraffes their breakfast, and saw the seals up close too, then we got to pat a koala, ringtail possum and echidna. It was great fun and I think I might have enjoyed it slightly more than Scarlett whose favourite part of any trip to the zoo is the ride on the gondola.
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