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Why Joe is the most awesomest ever!
Not only did he go to Chedder gorge and come back with a whole load of cheese, but he also bought me this:
We went to Longleat yesterday. I haven't been there in at least 15 years, and some of it was just how I remembered, but much of it was different.
Pictures below the cut to save your f-list.
On Safari, there were many exciting things:
Big game - rinos, giraffs, zebras, ostraches, tapiers, antalope type things, vultures.
This is a bongo, he was very prettty:
There were also pelicans. This picure came out very well:
Next were the monkeys. My dad always refused to go in the monkey bit (one year the monkeys got out and came to us, which was quite cool from the perspective of a small child, not so good from the perspective of a man who has just paid out a large sum to come inot the park and doesn't really want to have to pay for repairs to his car. We drove most of the way round befone one quite young one got on the car. We could hear it moving around, but couldn't see what it was going. If was definitely going for something. Found out later it had been trying to get the water squirter for the back windscreen off, but failed. The car infront of us had the door trim pulled out.
Then there were Fallow Dee. You could buy food and feed them. Some of the deer were looking quite plump. This was much fun.
It rained when we got to the tigers, so i don't have any good pictures, but watching a tiger run into the tree line was amazing. You really appricate how powerful they are when they move like that. The tiger looked very put out at getting rained on. Grumpy kitty!
Then there were lions. The first pride were all asleep, but the second pride (which we think were younger) were moving around and occationally beating each other up.
The wolves were all asleep too, so they weren't very interesting. They had some pups, but they were just fluffy lumps under the trees.
After the safari, we went to the pets corner. They had some very exotic pets, incuding ottes, snakes, leaf cutter ants taratulas etc. I got to hold a python. He was called Abracadabra. So cute!
Obligatory otter video. I love these things so hard.
Chipmonk. Not named Alvin, Simon, Theodore, Chip or Dale.
We went on a boat across the lake. The lake had sealions in, that were quite curious an(largely becuase they knew they were going to be fed at some point) adn two hippos, which were grumpy noon and night. Apparently at one point, we got too close, adn if the boat had been smaller, the hippos would have gone for us. Hippos kill about 4 to 5 hundred people a year. There was also an island with a gorrila. He was a bit miserable becuase he was being rained on. Apparently the sealions can't come on the island, but he will throw stones at them if they get too close. Ducks can, and if he catches them, he throws them in the water. This, unfortunately, was not demonstrated to us.
The most incredible part of the day for me was going into the imulated mine to the bat room. It was a smallish room, with a cople of dozen fruitbats living inside. They were happily fluing around, right past your face, and landing a few inches away. It unlike anything I've experienced before, and made me squee lots. Unfortuately it was too dark to photgraph them, so you have to trust me that they were adorable.
We went to Longleat yesterday. I haven't been there in at least 15 years, and some of it was just how I remembered, but much of it was different.
Pictures below the cut to save your f-list.
On Safari, there were many exciting things:
Big game - rinos, giraffs, zebras, ostraches, tapiers, antalope type things, vultures.
This is a bongo, he was very prettty:
There were also pelicans. This picure came out very well:
Next were the monkeys. My dad always refused to go in the monkey bit (one year the monkeys got out and came to us, which was quite cool from the perspective of a small child, not so good from the perspective of a man who has just paid out a large sum to come inot the park and doesn't really want to have to pay for repairs to his car. We drove most of the way round befone one quite young one got on the car. We could hear it moving around, but couldn't see what it was going. If was definitely going for something. Found out later it had been trying to get the water squirter for the back windscreen off, but failed. The car infront of us had the door trim pulled out.
Then there were Fallow Dee. You could buy food and feed them. Some of the deer were looking quite plump. This was much fun.
It rained when we got to the tigers, so i don't have any good pictures, but watching a tiger run into the tree line was amazing. You really appricate how powerful they are when they move like that. The tiger looked very put out at getting rained on. Grumpy kitty!
Then there were lions. The first pride were all asleep, but the second pride (which we think were younger) were moving around and occationally beating each other up.
The wolves were all asleep too, so they weren't very interesting. They had some pups, but they were just fluffy lumps under the trees.
After the safari, we went to the pets corner. They had some very exotic pets, incuding ottes, snakes, leaf cutter ants taratulas etc. I got to hold a python. He was called Abracadabra. So cute!
Obligatory otter video. I love these things so hard.
Chipmonk. Not named Alvin, Simon, Theodore, Chip or Dale.
We went on a boat across the lake. The lake had sealions in, that were quite curious an(largely becuase they knew they were going to be fed at some point) adn two hippos, which were grumpy noon and night. Apparently at one point, we got too close, adn if the boat had been smaller, the hippos would have gone for us. Hippos kill about 4 to 5 hundred people a year. There was also an island with a gorrila. He was a bit miserable becuase he was being rained on. Apparently the sealions can't come on the island, but he will throw stones at them if they get too close. Ducks can, and if he catches them, he throws them in the water. This, unfortunately, was not demonstrated to us.
The most incredible part of the day for me was going into the imulated mine to the bat room. It was a smallish room, with a cople of dozen fruitbats living inside. They were happily fluing around, right past your face, and landing a few inches away. It unlike anything I've experienced before, and made me squee lots. Unfortuately it was too dark to photgraph them, so you have to trust me that they were adorable.
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Also, snake-snake!
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Little snake was very cute, and so utterly unbothered about being handed round a dosen kids (and me).
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Nom nom nom.
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Wolves were definitely my favourite =^_^=
I'm not as brave as you though - I wasn't willing to take little Bertie into the monkey jungle.
And the butterflies rather liked resting on James' back which proved quite entertaining, too!
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We wouldn't have gone in with the monkeys if we weren't sure it would have led to temper tantrums from small children if we skipped them.
Definitely need to go again.