Australian Reptile Park

A day out at an Australian Zoo.

Nestled amongst the Eucalyptus that follow the Sydney-Newcastle freeway and around the Brisbane Waters national park is a colourful dinosaur that could be mistaken for a Jurassic styled theme park. It is the turn indicator for the Australian Reptile Park. A small zoo that hides within it a decent number of animals and is actually great value for money when you compare what you may pay at the Sydney Wildlife world in Darling Harbour.

During a visit with the family I managed to take some shots of some of the animals. All photos taken with a Sony NEX 5N and using a 18MM Wide Angle Lens and a 18-55MM Zoom Lens.

Without a doubt the star of the day was the huge Crocodile they have in the enclosure, but closely followed by the slightly creepy zookeeper, who is actually a pretty entertaining guy, but very creepy.

~ Pedro

No Swimming. 

This zookeeper was a strange character, some of the kids seemed a little creeped out.

This little alligator was deceptively active after laying about on the zookeepers neck.

This guys was just drying himself out by the looks of it, not really all that fused by me taking a few close ups.

Not sure if I had ever seen a koala's eyes up close, strange and reptilian.

No photo cropping here, just wanted to give perspective of the crocodile. Massive.

I don't know what these two where up to, but the one on top didn't seem all that happy to get snapped.