Andy feeding an elephant

As well as the main Crocoseum shows, there are small presentations and activities going on at all the animal/reptile enclosures all day. The highlight of the day for me was being able to feed an elephant!! The sight of three enormous elephants lumbering towards us as we waited to feed them was breathtaking. We got to feed them a piece of fruit, they took it out of our hand using their trunk and ate it – fantastic!! I also got to stroke a wombat, and we saw an excellent presentation with Harriet, the giant Galapagos Land Tortoise. Collected by Sir Charles Darwin in 1835, Harriet is the oldest living animal on the planet (176 years old), which makes it an awe-inspiring experience to meet her and touch her. If she gets tickled she lifts her shell up, which is great to watch! The other great, but horrible at the same time, thing we saw was a huge snake devouring a rat whole! There are also fantastic kangaroo, wallaby and koala areas where you can feed and sit amongst these marsupials, but we didn’t spend as much time there due to our visit to the koala sanctuary the day before.