HALLS GAP - After swimming with the dolphins in Monkey Mia, Wendy Hewitt decided her next animal adventure would involve meeting the meerkats at Halls Gap Zoo.
The Warracknabeal resident travelled to Halls Gap for the day with daughters Kaye Blackley and Wendy Hewitt and friend Marie Aitkin to undertake the 'Meerkat Experience', which allowed them to get up close and personal with Tiny, Cody, Buddy and Mika.
"I've wanted to see them for years," Mrs Hewitt said.
"They're smaller than I thought they would be!"
The experience is offered at meal times, so visitors to the zoo can feed the meerkats a mixture of mealworms and corn.
As part of the experience, the visitors were able to ask head keeper Alisha Bunting a range of questions and discover more about the meerkats' habitat, feeding habits and defence mechanisms.
The visitors learned meerkats are native to South Africa, breed well in captivity, have a life span of 10 to 12 years and are diurnal, meaning they are active during the day and sleep at night.
After looking around the zoo, Mrs Hewitt and her party were planning on visiting Lake Bellfield and stopping for some of Halls Gap's famous ice cream.
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