Zoo Day

28 Oct 2018

A day at the zoo. We casually Ubered our way to the zoo mid morning and fairly straight forward to get in even though the US$54  each was a bit hard to take. We wandered all over the zoo and managed to get lost a few times as the map sometimes didn’t line up with the signs and Jenny is always 180 degrees out in the northern hemisphere in any case. We walked here, we walked there, we walked everywhere except the two times we caught the cable car back up the hill but we did walk to get to it so that still counts.  Oh, and we also took the travelator up the hill too just because there was a inclining travelator in the zoo

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We had a healthy lunch of a salad pack and a wrap which we divided between us. The zoo doesn’t close til 8pm so we had early dinner there too.  At dinner we had over priced burger and chips that was average to say the least.

Larry wasn’t feeling the best as he still suffering from his cold which is causing him to cough constantly so at least Jenny knew where he was when he was close by but he soldiered on throughout the day enjoying the various animals in their areas. Not really cages as the zoo has put in a huge effort to make the enclosures more appealing for the animals so sometimes they are a bit camouflaged and take a while to spot.

Larry enjoyed the various monkey exhibits and especially a family of 4 baboons. The youngest was a ^%&% stirrer who kept teasing a slightly older one until it would retaliate. Then mum or even dad would intervene and the young one would go next to mum or dad the other one would get out of the way of a smack. Like children really.

Jenny enjoyed the polar bears the best. They have an ample swimming pool and two ice machines above the enclosure that drop shaved ice all day.  Jenny can still remember the poor lonely one in its nasty concrete enclosure at Perth zoo many years ago.  These ones seemed much happier even though they are stuck in a warm climate with very little ice.

We also queued up to see the giant pandas which were being quite active.  The keeper said the one who was being a bit of Ned clutz getting stuck in between branches and crashing into things was an adolescent male.  Typical teenager really.

Over all a very good day but tiring especially for Larry as he sick.  We wondered at the endurance of the small children who still seemed to be going strong and not having melt downs at 4pm in the afternoon.  We then worked out that they had only just arrived and were in Halloween costumes to take part in various childrens parties happening in the zoo between 5 and 8pm.  We oldies, who had been there since 10am and were exhausted, left them to it.