They have chosen a very particular mix of animals, the tallest mammal (giraffe), the largest African antelope (Eland), smallest African antelope (Blue Duiker), largest bird (ostrich) and so on.

I really struggled to get a photo of the ostrich because the eland kept walking in front of me just as I would get focused on the ostrich. Before he got up the ostrich was puffing up his neck and making a honking noise (I’m not really sure how to describe it). The way the ostrich looked, puffing up his neck and then making the sound made me think of a bag pipe – probably not a good idea to go and squeeze the ostrich with the orange legs though….

Grace was really calm and allowed the goats to eat from her hand today. A month ago in PE the goats freaked her out, but these goats were much more calm. It probably helped that one was wondering around out of the pen.

They have animal encounters three times a day, which is a reptile show. We got to see (and in some cases touch) a padloper tortoise (smallest tortoise), a baboon spider, Madagascan hissing cockroaches, an African bull frog (which is huge), an American corn snake, and a python….an we touched all of them except for the spider.

We all really enjoyed our visit and would definitely recommend it.