Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park
Animals in Gosford

Australia walkabout wildlife park is the only wildlife sanctuary in new south wales with both free-roaming australian animals and ancient aboriginal rock art sites! walk alongside kangaroos, emus and wallabies and meet flying-foxes. Take the kids for active birthday parties and school holiday programs. Guided by the rangers, enjoy a bush tucker barbeque, meet the nocturnal animals, sleep out in comfort under canvas and wake to a bush breakfast. Turn a memorable experience into an unforgettable one with a wild sleep-out. Free photos with friendly koalas, wombats, dingoes are available. Interact with mammals and reptiles in the daily shows. Experience ranger-guided aboriginal heritage and bush tucker/medicine tours. There are beautiful picnic areas and a veranda cafe on site and catering options for group activities are available.

You can aid us to sustain Walkabout Park's bush, animals and cultural sites. Purchase feed for the petting zoo funds raised assist pay for the animals' care. Unfold every day (except Christmas Day), the day time experience is fair as much fun. Amazingly, park rangers found the nest accessible to an aboriginal engraving of an emu over 1,00 years old. NOTE: Such is the nature of a wildlife sanctuary, things can happen 'on the day' which might make it necessary that we change the program. Why it is so imperative that people never feed the kangaroos and emus: Healthy people food is appropriate for people, but it can be really bad for animals. When people hand feed animals, the animal learns that it is okay to take food out of people's hands. Have you been to a zoo where the emus chase the people, or the kangaroos scratch the people? Some animals hunt other animals as they need to eat them for food. When you visit Walkabout Park, you get to go into the animals' world. When an animal must be in a controlled environment, as is the case with some of our reptiles in the High Protection area at the Visitor center because they need notable attention, we work with the animals to retain their worlds interesting and to foster their automatic behaviors. The release ranging animals at Walkabout Park are accustomed to people and many hangs around the Visitor center with the visitors. These animals can also be seen in camps at Walkabout Park where you can visit them at any time of the day. You are welcome to take photos and videos at Walkabout Park for your personal enjoyment and to share with family and friends, as lengthy as these recordings are not uncouth or in any way harmful to Walkabout Park's reputation, and Walkabout Park is pleased that they are respectful to the animals, staff and visitors. The ONLY day that we would normally be closed is Christmas Day. Since we opened in 2005, we have had to accessible Walkabout Park on only one other day. For a very leisurely experience, you can relax at the visitor center and have your ranger bring the experience to you. If you would prefer some personal time with the koalas (or any other animal) exterior of conventional animal encounter times so that you don't have to share the experience with other visitors, you can engage a ranger to receive you into the enclosure. There is ample food in our sanctuary for the animals to feed on as they would in the wild. Can visitors buy food (for themselves) at Walkabout Park? We do recommend, especially if you have insignificant children with you, that you eat near to the Visitor center where we can assist you if the emus and kangaroos get too friendly. Only at a sanctuary like Walkabout Park can the public see native animals feeding naturally in a reckless environment. The birds lived together and shared their food.

At Newcastle they merged with the Awabagal people who lived in that area. The Darkinjung and Kurringai people had a business relationship, future together to trade. This facilitated a close, cooperative relationship between the two tribes. This territory sharing was reciprocated, with the Darkinjung people using their relationship with the Kurringai tribe to move down to the coast and enjoy seafood feasts in summer. Relationships between tribes was not unusual. For example, tribes that inhabited coastal regions would exchange spears with inland tribes for clothing made from possum fur. Their neighbors in the south and east were the Kurringai, in the southwest the Dharug, and to the north of Lake Macquarie the Awabagul people. Archaeological excavations disclose that the Darkinjung consumed a lot of seafood, primarily during the summer when the fish were abundant. Women old fishing lines and men used spears to catch them. Wombats and koalas were not eaten much, if at all. Women carried items in string bags and coolamons (wooden vessels). The string or net bags were made from a knotted mesh of fibrous cord and were old to carry food and fishing gear. Canoes were made from a sheet of bark, skewered at each end and plugged with xanthoroea gum. Darkinjung dwellings, usually in groups of eight