Featherdale Wildlife Park, Australia Trip (Day 4)

19th Feb 2019, Tuesday

Today, we are leaving Sydney and moving to Kangaroo Valley. But first, we will head to Featherdale Wildlife Park (To bring my dad to see live jumping kangaroos..hohoho). We got up early and got ready. I went down to get a hot chocolate when the others packed the luggage. After that, we checked out from the lovely apartment and headed down to Featherdale Wildlife Park.

Park Entrance

The ride was around 45 mins from Sydney to the park and it's located near Blacktown. Along the way, my dad saw a sign directed to a Blacktown Shopping Centre. So he said to go have a look later after the visit to the park. We reached the park and parked the car in the car park opposite the entrance. Then we walked to purchase the entrance tickets and went in the park. We also bought a cup of kangaroo snacks to feed the kangaroos in the park.

Kangaroo with baby kangaroo

Small kangaroos

Crane

Snake

Big kangaroo

There were a few kangaroos near the entrance, so my dad went ahead to feed them. Then we walked further in to see other animals such as ghost bats, bilby, kola bears, snakes, etc. After some time, my dad and step mum went to take a rest while mi and my sister went ahead to check out the park. We also waited for the feeding time for the only giant crocodile in the park. There was a park guide introducing the crocodile and she prepared the meat to feed to it. The crocodile was not really interested in the meat when the guide lowered the meat. But when the meat got the attention of the crocodile, it jumped up and swallowed the meat up. After that, we walked a little longer in the park and collected the cute stamps. Then we went to find my dad and step mum.

Ninja Turtle

Fish & Chips

Fried Rice

After that, we left the park and drove to Westpoint Shopping Centre in Blacktown (think my dad wants to go shopping). Once reached the mall, we headed to the food court and had our lunch there.  After lunch, we split out to go for our own shopping. So mi and my sister went ahead and checked out our own interests, toys and supermarkets..hohoho...We bought some tim sum biscuits and snacks.  After shopping, we headed out to kangaroo valley but the car's gps did not have the route to our booked cottage. So we set the navigation to the tourist office in Kangaroo Valley and decided to look for the cottage when we were near the area.

And as usual, the car's GPS was giving funny routes again, different from google map from the phone. So i decided to direct my dad to follow the route from my phone, just directing him not to turn or turn when the car's GPS directed in a different route. And, i got to learn that the car's GPS would change the route to the one from the phone eventually. It was a long ride, it took around 3 hours to reach in Kangaroo Valley's area and we encountered some roads which were foggy. And the cottage was some distance away from Kangaroo Valley town and the signboard was quite small (easier to miss it). So we did drive past the entrance of the cottage and had to uturn back. But we managed to reached the cottage, and we parked our car in front of the cottage.

Dinning Area

Living Area

Master bedroom

Common bedroom

Bathtub

We were wowed away by the surroundings, mountains and goats surrounding the cottage and the weather was cooler than Sydney. So we carried our luggage and went into the house...the house was soo cold inside. The house was big, there were 2 bedrooms, connected by the toilet (almost one room size)...and there was a dinning area and a living room. Plus, a space for light cooking. There was a distribution on the garbage too. There was a food waste collection which the owner requested the guests to distribute for her chickens and pig). After some time, Jan (the owner) drove by and introduced herself to us. We also checked with her if there were some eating places opened for dinner as it was around 6 plus. My step mum did not want to drive out as it was getting dark, so we ordered some frozen food items from the owner (Should have really tabao the roasted chicken earlier...).

After the owner left, we tried to settle down in the house and agreed to leave the toilet door open on both rooms (One door on one of the rooms can't be locked). After some time, the owner came back with the food items we ordered. Mi and my sister heated up the food and we had our dinner....After that, we took turns to shower. My step mum was bothered by the full length mirror reflecting on the beds, so she took the newspaper to cover it (Chinese superstitious)... ^_^.

I went to lie on the bed early (writing postcards) and was feeling hot even if the aircon was on. So i asked my sister if i was having a fever. She was scared that she ran off to my dad's bedroom and said dun wan to sleep with mi tonight...hahaa...So i got the whole bed to myself. But later that night, i heard my sister was on the phone in the other room, my dad was yelling over the phone (to his workers) and my step mum was still watching tv...hohoho...Looks like they were enjoying themselves....^_^

Places visited:
Featherdale Wildlife Park
Westpoint Shopping Centre

Hotel Stayed:
The Heavens Mountains Escape (Elysium Cottage)