Featherdale Park
...is a petting zoo full of the exotic animals that live in the Australian outback. This isn’t like a typical petting zoo in the United States. The animals aren’t in cages. They run around the entire zoo. There are a few animals that are kept inside cages, such as dingoes and crocodiles that eat people, but all the other ones are free ranging.
The best part of this park was being able to touch animals that I would have never thought I would have even been able to see in my lifetime. I got to pet kangaroos, which are pretty skittish and really only like people who have food. 
The koalas that were out for us to touch were soft and almost plush feeling. It was funny though, there was a worker attending the petting area with the koalas in it. After we started touching the koala, he tells us, "Don't to touch its head because it doesn’t like that and will sometimes bite."
Besides these animals that we could pet, I learned that Australia has penguins, which I didn’t know. They also have a lot of bats and several kinds of parrots and wombats. There were quite a few animals that we would expect to see over here in a petting zoo, such as, rabbits and sheep.
Wombat
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