Discover Pearcedale

A range of options to consider when planning your trip includes Moonlit Sanctuary, with its Australian wildlife and conservation work, and one of the sculptures in the The Ovals series at Pearcedale Recreation Reserve. If you’re looking for a hotel in Pearcedale, you can consider whether you’d like wildlife encounters to shape your stay, or whether an interest in art also appeals to you.

Wildlife and conservation at Moonlit Sanctuary

Moonlit Sanctuary is a wildlife conservation park in Pearcedale. Its focus is on native Australian animals, conservation breeding programs and immersive nature experiences. This brings together two aspects of trip planning: encounters with Australian wildlife and the subject of its conservation. Wildlife encounters, hand-feeding, evening tours and the show each offer a different emphasis. If conservation interests you as much as the wildlife itself, you can take this focus into account when choosing where to stay.

At Moonlit Sanctuary, you can experience more than 70 Australian animal species, including threatened species; the number may change over time. Visitors can hand-feed kangaroos and wallabies. These details represent different aspects: the number of species gives an indication of the range of animals on offer, while hand-feeding describes a specific way to encounter two groups of animals. This can help you decide whether species diversity or a particular activity matters more to your trip planning.

The show and evening tours: two different experiences

Moonlit Sanctuary presents the “Conservation in Action” show daily in the show arena; program details may change. There, you can observe young animals such as bettongs, dingoes, spotted-tailed quolls, barn owls, boobook owls, cockatoos and tawny frogmouths as they train and display natural behaviours. These include climbing and flying from one point to another; the animals are rewarded for their natural behaviours.

The illuminated evening tours offer a different emphasis: visitors can experience Australian animals up close in their natural nocturnal surroundings. While the show arena brings together observations of young animals training and displaying natural behaviours, the evening tour focuses on encounters in a nighttime setting. If you’re choosing between the two formats, the show offers specific examples of behaviour such as training, climbing and flying from one point to another; the evening tour puts the nocturnal setting in the spotlight. This distinction can help you choose between a presentation and an evening nature experience. As tour details may change, check the latest tour information before making your plans.

Art at Pearcedale Recreation Reserve

The sculpture series The Ovals consists of three connected works; one of them is at Pearcedale Recreation Reserve in Pearcedale. The series name refers to the group as a whole, while the location in Pearcedale refers to one individual work. This provides an independent connection to art alongside Moonlit Sanctuary’s focus on wildlife and conservation. If you’d like to include art as another travel interest, the work offers a specific cultural point of interest in Pearcedale.

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