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The kangaroos free range around the sanctuary. They love to eat snacks from your hand
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Potoroo Palace - Native Animal Sanctuary

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Potoroo Palace Native Animal Education Sanctuary is a not-for-profit public wildlife sanctuary on Djiringanj land just 10 minutes outside Merimbula NSW. They are passionate about conservation,…

Potoroo Palace Native Animal Education Sanctuary is a not-for-profit public wildlife sanctuary on Djiringanj land just 10 minutes outside Merimbula NSW. They are passionate about conservation, education and community. Welcome to support the by visiting them!

Please visit to see a koala, wander among the kangaroos, touch a snake, stroll through the cooling mist of the walk-through aviary and have lunch and really good coffee at the Blue Wren Café.

You can get up close to their kangaroos, emus, ducks who roam the park freely and hand feed them with an Animal Feed Bag that are available at the entrance.

Potoroo Palace is about conservation, education and community. They acknowledge and have deep respect for the knowledge of the traditional custodians of this land, past, present and emerging.

They want to show people ways of living with native animals and valuing the trees, grasses and microorganisms living in the soil.

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2372 Princes Hwy Native animal sanctuary Yellow Pinch NSW 2548 Australia
0437 989 447
http://www.potoroopalace.com

2372 Princes Hwy Native animal sanctuary Yellow Pinch NSW 2548 Australia
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