Bundoora Park

Bundoora Park is billed as Melbourne's Most Diverse Park! It's maybe not THAT diverse, but it is fairly diverse. They have a children's farm, which we visited yesterday.

We wore the girls in our carriers, and wandered around admiring the goats, chickens, sheep, ducks, pigs, turkeys, cows, horses, guinea fowl, and a peacock.

Hazel was riveted by the picture of a pig above one of the pig encloses. The pigs themselves were vast sleeping beasts. One pig was facing away from us (pig's arse!) and was snoring with its head inside its food box.

We were followed by a troup of turkeys (not sure of the real collective noun). Normally the turkeys look like large geese, with hideous wattles on their faces. They have to put effort into holding all their feathers up so that they look like the pictures of turkeys I have seen.

Here is an inflated turkey:



The internet is full of inflated-turkey pictures, and this is the best I could do for a non-inflated turkey picture:


The reason I am labouring this point is that most of the turkeys looked like big geese, but one inflated itself and walked slowly towards us. it looked like it was doing something very serious. Its friend then wandered over to Trudi and looked interested in nipping Hazel's toes. When T moved a bit to protect the tiny toes, the turkey nipped the pram instead. Disaster averted!