Overview
- Features: Wildlife sanctuary featuring native Australian animals & birds
- Opening Times: 8am to 5pm, daily
- Best Time to Visit: 11am onwards
- Duration: Half a day
- Transport Options: Car, bus
- Cost: A$49 for adults, A$35 for children (4 to 13 yrs)
- Address: 28 Tomewin Street, Currumbin, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
- Type: Wildlife
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Summary
If you’re in the Gold Coast and you have a spare day, you must visit Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. One of the best places in Australia to view wildlife, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary has been attracting young and old for years. If you’re heading that way, read this post for the top things to do there as well as all the important information you will need to plan your visit to this star attraction.
Top 10 Things to Do at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
If you’re in the Gold Coast and you have a spare day, you must visit Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. One of the best places in Australia to view wildlife, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary has been attracting young and old for years. If you’re heading that way, read this post for the top things to do there as well as all the important information you will need to plan your visit to this star attraction.
Top 10 Things to Do at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
- Hand feed the wild rainbow lorikeets that flock here by the hundreds twice a day for feeding
- Take a photo while cuddling a koala
- Hand feed a baby kangaroo
- Watch the saltwater crocodiles be fed
- Take a free miniature steam-train ride through the park
- Learn about Australian wildlife through animal talks and feeding demonstrations
- Visit the sick animals in the A$1.5-million animal hospital
- Watch birds of prey take flight during the free-flight bird show
- Take part in the Aboriginal song-and-dance show
- Join the Wildnight tour and spot nocturnal animals as they come out at night
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Animals
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Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary began life as a bird sanctuary, and it is almost synonymous with the wild rainbow lorikeets that flock here by the hundreds twice a day for feeding. It’s quite an experience – flocks of chattering birds descend onto visitors holding trays of food for them. The amazingly beautiful birds have vivid green backs, blue heads, and red-and-yellow chests.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary showcases Australian native animals in natural bush and rainforest habitats. The park’s 27 hectares (67 acres) are home to 1,400 native birds and animals, including two saltwater crocodiles, and the wetlands on the grounds attract lots of native birds. Tree kangaroos, koalas, emus, wombats and other cute-and-furries are joined daily by flocks of brilliantly coloured rainbow lorikeets, which take great delight in eating out of your hand.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Showtimes
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8:00am – Lorikeet Feeding & Photo Opportunity
8:30am – Crocodile Photo Opportunity
9:30am – Pelican & Eel Feeding
10:00am – Blinky Bill’s Wildlife to the Rescue Show & Possum Photo Opportunity
10:45am – Free Flight Bird Show & Bird of Prey Photo Opportunity
11:15am – Australiana Sheep Shearing Show & Snake Photo Opportunity
11:45am – Dr Doo-Lots & The Creature Teachers Show
12:30pm – Meet Blinky’s Mates Photo Opportunity
1:00pm – Crocodile Behaviours Show & Crocodile Photo Opportunity
1:30pm – Blinky Bill’s Wildlife to the Recue Show & Possum Photo Opportunity
1:30pm – Cassowaries Feeding
2:10pm – Free Flight Bird Show & Bird of Prey Photo Opportunity
2:15pm – Wombat Feeding
2:30pm – Tasmanian Devils Feeding
2:45pm – Australiana Sheep Shearing Show & Snake Photo Opportunity
3:00pm – Forest Fringe Birds Feeding
3:15pm – Koalas Feeding
3:30pm – Aboriginal Dance Show & Photo Opportunity with Dancers
4:00pm – Lorikeet Feeding & Photo Opportunity
4:15pm – Snake Photo Opportunity
4:30pm – Blinky Bill’s Wildlife Celebration
Wildnight Tour – Dinner at 5:30pm, tour starts at 6:45pm
Currumbin Wildlife Hospital
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Founded in 1989, Currumbin Wildlife Hospital is one of the busiest wildlife hospitals in Australia. It is primarily dedicated to the care and rehabilitation of the local wildlife at the sanctuary. In addition, the wildlife hospital treats over 8,000 native animal patients brought in by the local community annually.
Guests to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary can get entrance to the Wildlife Hospital where they can have a bird’s eye view of the vets at work, including xrays, ultrasounds and endoscopes streamed live on a flat screen during procedures. Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary conducts hospital tours, as well as offers and supports wildlife courses to help engage the public in their plight.
Viewing times start at 9am daily.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Tickets
Tickets for Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary cost A$49 for adults and A$35 for children aged 4 to 13. Book in advance online at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Discount Tickets
Discount tickets to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary can occasionally be found on Groupon.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Hours
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary is open daily from 8am to 5pm. It is closed on Christmas Day and Anzac Day.
Bus to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
You can take Bus 700, 760, or 765 which stop 15m (49 feet) from the entrance.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Map
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Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Address
28 Tomewin Street
Currumbin
Gold Coast
Queensland
Australia
-18km (11 miles) south of Surfers Paradise
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