INTO THE WILD

IT’S EVERY CHILD’S DREAM COME TRUE, to be locked inside a zoo once the gates have closed and the visitors have all gone home. And I’m living it. There is nothing nefarious about how I have found myself within the grounds of Sydney’s celebrated Taronga Zoo after dark; rather it is all well conceived and purposeful.

I am a guest at the Wildlife Retreat at Taronga, a new 62-room eco-retreat owned and operated by