Caversham Wildlife Park

If you have guests over from out of town, or children, or you just want a different day out; Caversham wildlife park is a great way to go, especially if you will be touring swan valley before or after. Its entry fee of $ 27 might seem steep but it includes the farm show, and petting all the animals you can handle. It is good value and is a fun day out. There is quite a wide range of animals from around Australia represented here. There is a large group of kangaroos in the middle of the park, including albino ones. Really tame and willing to take photos with you. Feed is available for free so the Roos also tend to seem overfed and ready to sleep. The farm show includes a demonstration of a working sheep dog, shearing a sheep, milking a cow, cracking a whip and turning a billy can. Slap on sunscreen, whack on a hat and drink lots of water to stay cool and hydrated.

Great place to take the kids to view and learn about the Australian wildlife!
Kids loved to walk with and feed the kangaroo’s. Make sure you go there early as the animals get stuffed and sleepy by lunch time :-)
Animal farm show was great — educational and entertaining. Again kids preferred when they could interact with the animals.
Great souvernir shop on the way out.
Recommend to eat at some of the nearby wineries instead of the chips and burger place located near the parking area…

Great place to take toddlers. All Australian animals in this wildlife park with plenty of space for the kids to explore. Good restaurant facilities with a variety of foods available, or just bring your own. Up close and personal with the kangaroos is a real treat for the kids.

Very small and a little out there, but overall, what a great experience for a tourist like me wanting to meet (and I didn’t realize) prt koalas and feed kangaroos and similar marsupials! There are some pretty neat exhibits of other animals in a «traditional» zoo setting as well including dingos and sugar gliders as well as some neat bat exhibits (check out the feeding!). Overall, what a neat place to see a lot of the native Australian wildlife up close and personal.

Not a big fan of zoos or animals in captivity. Generally the animals are lethargic and its sad to see them in an unnatural state. While I’m here in Australia, there are some things I must do for the sake of my relatives — pet a koala/​kangaroo/​random Australian animal… so for their sake I visited the Caversham Wildlife Park.
To say the animals were lethargic is an understatement considering koalas are known to sleep for 20+hours! Sadly many of the tourists were talking loudly and petting the animals despite the animals sleeping. Some even attempted to pick up the kangaroos and were subsequently scolded by the park workers.
Great place for kids and families (and big kids who need to see koalas and kangaroos up close).

Much better than perth zoo if you want to get up and close with the animals! Very small but packed full of great experiences! You can feed the Kangaroos, stroke the koalas and see the range of animals in between. The farm show is also worth a watch to cap the end of the day. Make sure you arrange your day around the timings of the animal experiences as I’m sure during certain times of the year it gets extremely busy!

Being Perth born I was so impressed and proud of Caversham Wildlife Park when I visited it a few months ago.
The animals are well cared for and the facilities well maintained, it is a clean park.
The park houses a number of native Australian animals and birds. The park also has a walk through 100% interactive Kangaroo enclosure where you can spend all day with the kangaroos if you wanted too. You can feed and touch the kangaroos and take many photos of them.
You can bring a picnic and easily spend the day at the park as there is an undercover picnic bench area as well as an area in the sun. Be sure to bring sunscreen.
There is a little kiosk and a souvenir shop and I have to say one of the best souvenir shops in Perth as you can find some stuff actually produced and made in Australia.
Other animals i enjoyed seeing were the owls, the The Blue-​winged Kookaburra (have never seen the blue winged ones!!!) and the The Blue-​winged Kookaburra.
We missed the Lhama and the dingo as we were on a tight schedule.
For the kids there is a baby farm where you can meet some of the farm animals.
Across from the car park and outside of the grounds is a café and large picnic park.

I really enjoyed seeing the kangaroos, koalas, and birds. As a non-​native to Australia, this was a really fun adventure. I just get kind of nervous wondering where all of these animals came from… are they disabled and therefore have to be permanently held in captivity? I couldn’t really get a straight answer on this. All i really got was that some of the koalas have lost their mothers and therefore have to be hand raised. Although very interesting to see up close, it kind of breaks my heart to see all of those birds in their cages

From a tourists point-​of-​view, Caversham is an excellent wildlife park!
You actually get to come up close to (and even pet) kangaroo’s, wombats, and koalas. There is plenty to see beyond those critters.
I wasn’t too impressed with the kangaroo hides in the respective store (and I’m not talking about the quality), but other than that, it was a great experience!!!

I took my mum here to see only kangaroos and joes. It offers more than that. You can find out more about Australian wildlife and the oz animals.
BUT the animals did not seem normal to me. Especially owls, they had no reaction as I was getting close to them.
Some gooses had no pool as they need water always… They said you cannot touch the eucalyptis trees because koalas do not eat once it has been touched however, the guy who feed the koalas, carried the tree without gloves on…

Take this review from a tourist that has spent most of his life in the American continent (North and South America), You will LOVE Caversham ‘s. Especially if it is your first time mingling with the beautiful Australian Flora and Fauna.
Delight yourself with the different kinds of birds everywhere and the many lovely plants that I had not seen in any other place. Really.
Check out Australia’s authentic wallaby’s (Cool tiny marsupials that are like kangaroo meets hare and rush through procreation to end up with the wallaby)
The kangaroos are freaking awesome, the Koalas are the sweetest things to see, the possums are cool, the wombats are sooo coool! and all the other animals, including the «farm» animals, that although I’ve seen them before, it was so cool to be in their areas and walk with them, and play with them and all that fun stuff.
The great thing about this park is that it has big free areas where you can roam with the animals. There’s a huge middle field where the kangaroos are free to run around, with all of us visitors IN IT! That’s right! you get to play and touch and feed kangaroos! its soo cool! you can be stuck there for hours during your first visit! they are all so chill! and there’s no strong regulations there. You get to touch Koalas and Wombats and get really close to them and take pictures and what not.
You get to play inside the big area where the sheeps, goats, and other little animals are. You get to play and touch all the animals there! its so fun! :)
Also they have shows in which they show some animals like the big wombat, and some owls that were awesome.
In all honesty, the park was nice. You can finish it all in like 3 – 4 hours. Their webpage is really helpful. You pay only at the entrance. It was like 23 for adults (15+) and 16 or so for students with a concessions card (Has to be from WA).
The staff was nice, always offering to take pictures for you, telling you how to pet some animals. The little ecosystems built for each type of animals were good. The spaces were also good, and it seemed like the animals were cool. Some of them seem a bit underfed, but none of them looked mistreated as one the reviews mentioned, although I do not know anything about the park, as I’m just visiting.
To me, my experience was great and wish they had some sort of season pass to go there once a week haha. jk. but seriously.
Go have some fun, especially if you are a tourist, and an animal lover.

We loved coming here mainly because of the kangaroos!!! It’s definitely a tourist place, and as a tourist, I loved being able to interact with animals. It’s something you don’t get to do in the US.
We saw so many animals that are native to Australia that we don’t always get to see at home. We got to pet kangaroos, koalas, lizards, possums, and a wombat. The staff were very friendly and knowledgeable.
Make sure you wear lots of sunblock and bring water. Not every area is shaded and it can get very hot. If you can go on a cooler day, the animals will be more active.

Anyone with a shred of decency in them should avoid Caversham Wildlife Park at all costs.
On the surface it’s your typical touristy location — Aussie animals to look at, cutesy shops and bbq areas etc, etc. And indeed it is a MASSIVE tourist attraction in Perth.
But for reasons I can’t explain, I happen to have a bit of insider information on Caversham — specifically how they treat their animals behind closed doors.
There’s only one word for it: shameful. Just good enough to avoid the RSPCA removing the animals by force — only JUST, and there’s a hell of a lot the RSPCA and the Australian public don’t know.
So don’t support Caversham. It doesn’t deserve it.

hmm.. . maybe being an aussie somewhat tarnishes the rose coloured glasses that caversham has for some?
The park is in a beautiful setting, (I can’t rave enough about how much I love Whiteman park) but perhaps for that reason I was a little bit disappointed about the enclosures. i understand the practicalities of the cages– as much to protect the animals as they are to contain them, but I found the space to be a tad confined for my liking.
Like most animal parks, the animals are fairly tame and happy to nuzzle into recognised bags for pellets and any edible goodies you may have stashed on yourself. The roos looked quite relaxed as did the majority of the animals there and it was pretty much a run of the mill native aussie animal showcase.
For almost $ 25 for adults and $ 10 for kids this is very much a novelty expedition so worthwhile getting your moneys’ worth by getting in early (like 11: ish) and sticking around for the shows where you can get up close with the wombats and snakes should you so choose.

My first time at Caversham was when I had just arrived in Perth and hadn’t seen any native Australian wildlife yet, so my friends and I decided that it was about time we saw some kangaroos and koalas and got going to the wildlife park. As a foreigner it was a great experience; being able to get so close to the kangaroos and pet them but I was very astonished by how unfazed they were with all the touching and found it quite bizarre that they weren’t moving very much — I guess that’s what captivity does to you, nevertheless I was extremely excited and overwhelmed by the experience.
Then we stroked koalas, saw a lot of bird life, got introduced to a baby wombat and pet many other lovely animals. This is really a great place to bring children and friends from overseas who won’t get the opportunity to see these animals in their natural habitat — although it’s much nicer, it’s a fun and social day out and you get to see the wonderful Australian wildlife.

We had visitors over from the UK last weekend so we took them to Caversham, it is kind of the thing to do when we have people over. It is always a good day and they love getting to see all the native Australian animals. The in a walk in area and kangaroos are out in the open and you can stroke and feed them. It is actually quite nice.
They have birds, koalas, crocodiles, wombats, emus and a load of other things. It is set out nicely, it isn’t a real wildlife park, it feels more like a zoo, all the animals in cages.
It is a good day out for a tourist, but I have to detach myself from the animals, other wise I get angry that they are put in cages. I won’t go into that.