Port Stephens Animal Adventures
Highlights
- Swim with sharks and rays in 25°C water year-round
- Unique Underwater Café and Butterfly House experience
- Free return visits for a year with Mega Ticket
Overview
Some places you visit. These Animal Adventures will stay with you forever.
Port Stephens Animal Adventures is a fully indoor, all weather wildlife and aquarium attraction, one of the most interactive family attractions in the region and a popular choice for things to do in Port Stephens.
Visitors can feed and interact with nearly 150 sharks and rays in a supervised touch pool, some 2.5 metres long and some that will sit in your hand. Guests can also enter the water with sharks, rays, freshwater eels, moray eels, zebra sharks and a giant grouper.
Our Rescued Reptile Encounters happen all day and offer genuinely close up experiences with snakes, lizards and bearded dragons, handled by the animal care team and ready for photos. Out in the farmyard, sheep, goats and an alpaca are waiting to be hand fed.
Australia's most interactive Macaws are a must do experience, along with feeding our famous rescued long necked turtles.
All ticket holders also get entry to the Crocodile Encounters billabongs next door, three indoor pools home to 21 saltwater crocodiles including Rocksteady.
The ultimate experience is the Crocodile Swim and Giant Grouper Shark Feed, featuring Rocksteady, Australia's largest crocodile you can swim up to at 4.8 metres and 800 kilograms.
Located near Nelson Bay, Newcastle and just 2.5 hours from Sydney.
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Accessibility
Allows a person's carer free entry into participating venues and events
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
Employ people with disability
Have a step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
Have accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on your website (can be emailed on request)
Have step free access to restaurant, lounge and bar
Have step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
Offer a range of contact methods for receiving complaints
Offer multiple options for booking - web, email, phone
Train your staff in disability awareness
Use Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
Website meets WCAG 2.0 accessibility standards
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)