Ettamogah

Ettamogah
12-06-2012

Another Park to close down has been the curiously named Oz.e.Wildlife Park - or something similarly incomprehensible - located just north of Albury, NSW.

Closed at the end of February after the local Council declined to renew it's $50,000 annual subsidy.

However, the land is worth millions so the Trust that owns/operates it should still be able to carry out it's conservation work if it sells the property.

12-06-2012

here's an article about it closing:
Lights out: Oz.e.Wildlife shut down | The Border Mail

12-06-2012

Not sure if this is the place your talking about or not, do you mean the wildlife park with the 'Big Pineapple', I have a feeling that was near the Ettamogah Pub?

12-06-2012

No - that one was in Queensland and has closed down also.

This one is in far southern NSW near the real district of Ettamogah.

12-06-2012

Where on earth do you find all this stuff? Do you ever sleep? LOL

12-06-2012

I have a dolphin brain. One half awake and one half asleep.

...and sometimes I do it in Spanish: Jaguar-tiger hybrid?

12-06-2012

Oh right, thanks for that. Do you know what the Queensland park was called?

13-06-2012

That Park was called, I think, the Big Pineapple Wildlife Park and was just one component of a tourist farm, fruit shop complex. It is now closed.

The developers of the Queensland Ettamogah pub complex also had a reptile display in a building at that attraction for some time. That has now been closed for some years.

The Ettamogah name became saleable because it was the subject of a regular cartoon by Ken Maynard in a weekly magazine in this country. The cartoon featured characters who hung out at this weird shaped pub in a town called Ettamogah. The real Ettamogah in southern NSW never did have such a pub until an enterprising developer constructed such an edifice in an endeavour to develop it as a tourist attraction. With it's surrounding shops and caravan park it became quite a success. So much so that another one was built in Queensland.

The Ettamogah Sanctuary [aka Oz.e.Wildlife] that has recently closed, pre-dated the tourist development by many years and had nothing to do with it. Although in the same district, it was located several kilometres away.