Thursday, 11 March 2021, 9:15 am
The aviary at Caroline Bay will close for approximately
two months from tomorrow for refurbishment.
The major
work will be the replacement of the forty year old netting
on the geodesic dome section of the aviary, which was built
in the early 80s and rebuilt in its current site in
2009.
The $70,000 restoration job will also see a
refresh of the vegetation in the free flight area and
cleaning of all the facilities.
There has been an
aviary in some form at Caroline Bay since the first one was
gifted by the Caroline Bay Association (CBA) in
1930.
The geodesic dome people know today didn’t