Taronga Zoo

This is our day out at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. It was a lovely warm day with the sun shinning.

As you can see we saw the Gorillas and this family were kind enough to have their photo taken with Nanny and Oliver !!! LOL.

When we got around to the lion's we were just in time to see them being fed. One was pacing back and forth as he knew what was coming and then you just had to watch him tear into his food as they were right in front of the glass window. The next window along were the tigers and they were already eating their food when we got there.

Oliver loves Giraffes so he had to climb on this baby giraffe and have his photo taken. There were a family of Chinese people who Oliver kept saying hello to so they wanted to take a photo of him as well. It was really quite funny.


This photo of Oliver and myself was taken as we were sitting down to watch the bird show. Some of the birds fly only cm above your head as they parade around. One flew right over Oliver's head.

Woburn Safari Park

We headed off this morning to Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire but ended up at Woburn Safari Park due to the roadworks on the M1. We thought we had missed the exit for Whipsnade but further on was another sign for a park so we headed for that one. This particular park you drive around like on a safari. It is a bank holiday in England and a lot of other people had the same idea so the park was very busy. The worst part was getting to see the Lions - who were just lying about off the side of the road. If you opened your car window and put your arm out, you could almost touch them (health warning: you may loose your arm if you do this!!). It also took us at least 40+ minutes to get past the lions because of the traffic jam!!!

Then we came up against the monkeys. Oliver loved these as they jump on your car and if you are not careful they will run off with your car ariel or other bits. We had 2 jump on our car and as we have a sun roof, we could see one sitting on the roof.

After driving around safari style you then head to the 'foot safari' - walk about to see the animals in their enclosures. There was a section called 'Australian Walkabout' in which they had wallabies and emu's and you could feed and touch the wallabies so here is a photo of Oliver and his new friend 'Wally'.