Australia Walkabout Park is where you can visit the friendliest wild Aussie animals, with over 180 species roaming free and happy in the bush. Why not come and visit our ancient Aboriginal sites and learn how to connect with the land? Here are just some of the reasons why everyone loves Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park ...  

Rocla, a large sand mining company, bought the land next door to Walkabout Park from the NSW Government in 2006. 

Rocla has now applied to the NSW Goverment for permission to rip up to 1.4 million tons per year of sandstone into building sand each year for the next 30 years. 

Besides the obvious impact of destroying habitat of endangered species known to live on their land, Rocla will cut open and destroy the aquifer, the porous rock that holds the water supply for the region, 

Even when Rocla eventually stops mining, the aquifer, having been cut open, will never be able to recharge. 

The area is already short of water.  The open cut sand mine will bleed the area beyond the possibility of recovery, destroy the region including the Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park animal sanctuary. 

So much for 'carbon trading'.  The destruction planned will be more devastating, immediate and certain than anything we contemplate around carbon emissions.

A wild night out, camping in comfort under canvas

Book for the perfect adventure!  Camp overnight with the rangers in canvas safari tents.  This is an experience you don't want to miss, even if you think you "don't do camping".

With brand-new, spacious tents, scrumptious meals, hot showers and an exclusive behind-the-scenes program, our Wild Sleep-Outs turn a memorable experience into an unforgettable one!

Join in the ranger-led activities that happen throughout the day, starting at 10am. 

Each activity is a different experience.  Meet the animals.  Learn about bush tucker and bush medicine.  Visit the Aboriginal sites.

We are open from 9am to 5pm
every day all year round
(except Christmas Day)

To see the adventure program for each day, check the schedules listed below under

• Weekends and Public Holidays
• School Holidays - Week Days
• School Term - Week Days

Our Kids' Holiday Adventure runs from 11am to around 1pm on selected weekdays during the holidays. 



Make ochre face paint and get painted up ready for the adenture, then...

* Learn how to throw a boomerang
* Pat a python
* Track real wild kangaroos and emus through the bush
* Try bush tucker
* Feed the tiny pademelons
* Meet Ally, our baby wombat
* Learn about Aboriginal medicine
* Wash up with bush soap

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Experience the real world of a ranger in a free-range animal sanctuary.  Learn just a bit about what it takes to monitor and manage the animals' physical and psychological wellbeing, from habitat management to enrichment programs.  Assist with tours and demonstrations as the Walkabout Park team fulfills its philosophy of 'Conservation through Education'.  Go behind the scenes from dusk-to-dawn when the sanctuary is closed to the public.  Toast marshmallows and listen to Aboriginal stories around the fire then camp out under canvas with the rangers and rise to a bush breakfast, ready for another day. 

 Bilby and Friends Enterprises ™ Pty Ltd

 Billy Bilby strongly supports Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park's aims of Conservation through Education!

 Announcing the winners in The Billy Bilby drawing competition, run in partnership between the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge, the NSW Department of Education and Training, Bilby and Friends Enterprises and Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park! First prize winners receive a family pass to the Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park experience, a Billy Bilby plush toy, two Billy Bilby books, a drawing book and an Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park wristband. There are also prize packs for highly commended, commended and special mention entries. These illustrations will be used in a special online book and its promotion.  

Meet the animals free and happy in the bush

Nowhere else can you get up close and personal with so many of the friendliest wild animals in Australia. 

Get a personal introduction to Australia's iconic species.  Meet a red kangaroo, a grey kangaroo, a wallaroo, emu, wallaby, pademelon, wombat, koala, python, dragon, turtle, possum, lizard, flying fox or dingo, and lots lots more.

The animals have as much fun as the people do.  Except for a handful that have special needs, they all roam free and safe through a fox-proofed bush sanctuary.

You don't have to visit the Outback to experience ancient Aboriginal cultural heritage.  This is Darkinjung country right on your doorstep.  Please respect the land and the sites that you will find here.

Come and visit the only Aboriginal sites in New South Wales with daily interpretive tours to give visitors an insight into Darkinjung culture: art, signs, the bush, bush tucker and bush medicine by rangers who are well qualified and highly knowledgeable.

Enjoy the contemporary Aboriginal art on exhibition in our Visitors' Centre.

You can choose your experience.  Go walkabout along the tracks or just relax on the veranda at the café and let the animals come to you.

Enjoy a light meal at the café or bring your own picnic and settle back on the veranda or under the trees while the animals come to you

Clowns juggle balls, our rangers juggle bugs.

You've done MacDonalds. You've done home parties and cleaned up the mess afterwards. You've even done the zoo. Now it's time for something completely different!

Our adventure parties are designed for 4 to 12 year olds and don't forget we do do adult parties too - contact us for details.

Enjoy a stroll along the tracks through the sanctuary and spy on our resident koalas, kangaroos, dingoes, wallabies and emus.

We have various volunteer programs for international and local volunteers to suit most age groups and interests.

Right now we need volunteers to run the cafe and visitor centre

Do you like making light meals and keeping everything clean and tidy?  Can you be available regularly a day or two per week or fortnight?  Sometimes things are pretty busy.  At other times there's time to sit on the veranda and drink tea with the animals.  Perhaps you have a friend who would like to volunteer with you.  Just call or email us.  Our contact details are at the bottom of this page.

Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park has just launched our newest and most exciting program!

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Come and join us on an unforgettable journey behind the scenes, with a certificate upon completion. Be a Ranger for a Day, working alongside our rangers and aiding in the conservation and care of Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park's native naimals and plants.

Bookings essential. Minimum age 14 years. Terms and conditions apply. 

Looking for a place to share your memories?

If you've visited our park and want to keep in touch, post photographs and share memories, why not join our Facebook Group?  Just click here on Friends of Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park
You don't even have to sign up for Facebook to enjoy all the pictures posted by group members!

Footage of Walkabout Park has been aired on television around the world, in South America, North America, Europe and Asia.  International television programs in the last year include TV Record Brazil’s 50-por-1, RTL’s Explosiv-das-Magazin and wide-scale DVD distribution by Lifeway Church Resources’ Childhood Ministry Publishing in the United States of America.   NHNZ, a New Zealand-based company, has recently shot footage here for Travel Bug, to be shown on the National Geographic Channel internationally and the Travel Channel in the United States.  A Chinese film crew has also been here recently to shoot segments for a reality show that will be shown on the Travel Channel in China to a potential audience of 300 million people.  Australian TV programs have included a number of appearances on Totally Wild, Totally Australia and Sydney Weekender with Mike Whitney, and we have recently had a crew here to shoot the pilot episode for Animal Talk, a potential television show about an animal psychologist. Most recently, Walkabout Park's bat enclosure opening has been filmed for NBN News on 19 April 2009, The 7:30 Report on 21 July 2009, and is soon to appear on Eat Do See, a lifestyle magazine program, and on Getaway, the well-known travel magazine program.

• Central Coast Express Advocate - Baby Koala Needs a Name
• Central Coast Express Advocate Photo Gallery - Wonderful Wildlife  
• NBN News - Calga Flying Foxes
• Sydney Weekender
• Brazilian TV's 50 Por 1
• Notebook Magazine

Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park • cnr Peats Ridge and Darkinjung Roads, Calga, NSW 2250
phone (02) 4375 1100 • from outside Australia dial +61 2 4375 1100
fax (02) 4375 1257 • from outside Australia dial +61 2 4375 1257
info@walkaboutpark.com.au • www.walkaboutpark.com.au