The Western Plains Zoo is near Dubbo, a day's drive west of Sydney. The enclosures are huge with unobtrusive barriers, so visitors get the illusion that they are sharing a vast park with elephants, kangaroos, giraffes, camels, rhinoceroses ........ You do a lot of walking, or you take your car or hire a bicycle. The undated pictures here were taken in about 1994 with a film camera; the more recent visit was on my way back from my "First Outback Trip" (see that gallery) when by showing up at the gates at 6.30 a.m. my daughter and I were able to join a "walk" with a volunteer guide for a look behind some of the enclosures. We were allowed to feed the giraffe but not to pat the hippopotamus.

September 2005. Spent a good half day at the zoo on the return leg of our "Second Outback Trip", and have added a number of new pictures.

See also some pictures taken at Mogo Zoo in 2007: http://www.pbase.com/lambsfeathers/naturecoast