I'll be passing through Dubbo in a few weeks and wondered about the zoo, I've heard a couple of good reports - what is the wisdom of the forum?
Hi Mike.
As we are Grandparents and having our first Grand child with us it added to a wonderful day, it is or should I say was back in 2003 a very relaxed way of walking, driving and viewing a zoo. Today if there were just us 2 oldies we probably spend 2 days to see it all.
Only late last year we had family and friends enjoyed the zoo and their experiences were very pleasing.
As a now old solo retired Indian Chief I will say, well worth it, as is any open range zoo. If ever over on the Sunshine Coast, Australia Zoo is a big must as well.
Keep Safe on the roads and out there.
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Mike a ticket entitles you to go two days, so we found that doing the keeper talks spread over the two gave us a really good tour. The talks are not always on time so what we missed on day one we saw on day two. Great donation camp at Toongi hall about 10 Km south on Obley road is a great base. The bloke who used to do the astronomy presentation at Coonabarabran is now based just south of the zoo and does a great nightly show with his own telescopes, so a good fill in between the two days. The roads from Wellington to Dubbo have sculptures of animals on bikes which is worth a look. One that will give you a laugh is in the yard of the Cumnock police station which is up a side street in this town.
Alan
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Endorsing everything above. We enjoy doing the early morning feeding tour and breakfast. Unfortunately the prices are a little above our comfort zone to stay at the Zoo but there are a few freedom camps out of town a couple with powerful 4WD access only
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Dubbo zoo tries to recreate the feeling of the African plains for their larger animals which is a big step forward from my younger days when they were housed in small enlosures at the Toronga Zoo - IMHO it's probably worth spending a day walking, cycling or driving around it. Just a tip there is a small vineyard (Red Earth) on Camps Road behind the zoo, it has some very nice wines and an excellent selection of Chinese dumplings that seem to go remarkably well with the food. The winery is not a caravan park but they told us that they provide overnight parking for vans (I dont know what they charged but a couple of RVs were camped there when we visited). The only problem will be if the winery has reopened as apparently it was closed due to the Caronavirus restrictions.
