We drove out to the SanDiego Zoo's Safari Park on Tuesday. It lives up to its title since it consists of many wide open spaces with huge enclosures for African wild animals. The best way to see this is to take the tram which slowly goes along a winding path that allows you to see the animals in situ. While that may be the best way to see the animals and get an interesting description of their special needs or traits, it's not much fun attempting to make photos, more about that later.
Walking to the tram involves walking through many animal and bird displays with many large ponds, fountains, waterfalls and the like.
Here are a few ducks that I didn't identify, but thought they might still be of interest. Don't they look like they were designed in a kindergarden class?
Further along, there was a huge area devoted to a group of gorillas: he's the male Silverback, leader of the group.
And here's a one year old baby...
Along the tram ride we saw two ostrich,
a bunch of antelope,
two giraffe, and some food in a tall tree. Mind you, there were lots of other animals that were difficult to make good photographs of because of the almost constant movement of the tram.
Ever notice that when you take a tram, or some sort of educational ride, or walk, you'll be saddled with crying babies, loud little girls, rambunctious little boys, with Mothers desperately trying to establish some control, or just giving up and using their smartphone to take pictures? I didn't think it was just us, but I digress...
The Safari Park also had a beautiful Japanese Garden that contained stunning Bonsai.
This is also something special to Safari Park: parking spaces near the entrance reserved for Hybrid cars.
On a similar topic, we noticed that in San Diego, they have electric Smart Cars available in various spots as shareable cars. Here's a link that explains it all; what a great concept and it seems to work very well. Now wouldn't that be a good idea for home?
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