Devils@Cradle — Attraction in Cradle Mountain

This place left me speachless and I literally had tears in my eyes as it was such an amazing experience for me! Coming from Europe, the only picture of the Tasmanian Devil I had in my head was the cartoon character 😅 And zero knowledge about them whatsoever.

I dreamed of seeing them live from the moment I decided to visit Tasmania weeks ago and this sanctuarium was the first place on my bucket list. I was incredibly lucky to arrive just right on time for the guided tour at 10.30. The stories told by the staff were amazing. So many interesting facts about the devils and their lives, insights about the particular Devils living in the sanctuary. All told with humor and great knowledge.

To me all of this was new, exciting and super interesting but it's a place worth visiting for just everyone, regardless of how familiar with Tasmanian devils you are. Volunteers are doing amazing job and the place is stunning.

If you're looking for something more than just a general visit to the devils, there are different tours available at different hours (I didn't know about that but was lucky to come on time). There's a guided tour, a feeding tour, a joey tour and sunset tours. I've visited on Sunday, 16th of April and there were only 5 other visitors at the same time although I was a bit worried that weekend might get crowded. It wasn't, at least not in the morning 🙂

There's a cute shop with all sorts of devil related souvenirs to buy and a possibility to adopt a devil ❤️

Big, big thanks to the volunteers for this...

Enjoyed our night feeding tour here. Even though this 1 hr tour started at 5:30pm, don’t let the name of the tour fool you if you travel here in summer. It went overtime by 30mins and it was still daylight the entire tour. Tip: show up 20-30min earlier and have a walk around. There are plenty of enclosures to check out different Tasmanian devils, eastern quolls and spotted tail quolls. There’s a wombat enclosure there too but didn’t see it. The tour guide had their speaker up so loud that I had to move away. Some interesting facts given. The tour guide moved us around to different enclosures and let us watch on as she fed meat to the animals. The younger quolls were shy and the tassie devils made some noise when fighting over the food. Worth the visit when in Cradle Mt. If you don’t have time to do the tour and don’t care about watching the animals feed, then pay just for the entry ticket and you can see everything at your own pace. There are signs to say what animal is in the enclosure and their name. But no facts about them like you’d find at a zoo. If you want facts, join a feeding tour. Book tours in advance as they do fill up! Plenty...

AMAZING facility! The enclosures are spacious with many spots for hiding, climbing and running. All animals are out and about, clearly unfazed by guests' presence. All animals are in great body condition especially with breeding season upon us. We were baffled by the lack of odor for a facility that is full of carnivores- easiest way to spot a high standard of cleaning! The boardwalks make it fairly accessible, there's decent signage plus an educational room. I've visited twice now and both tour guides/keepers were well spoken, informative, knowledgeable, engaging and passionate. Gift shop is awesome, easily spent $200. All paid experiences are easily worth the money to anyone who gives half a scat about conservation or animal welfare. It's a disgrace to taxpayers that the Government isn't funding such a well established conservation effort and a disgrace to animal advocates that such a place could have multiple 1 star reviews! Especially over being "boring" or Joey's being "too old". Imagine if all guests actually listened to the keeper talks, they might accidentally...