Gilbert - Wildlands - part 3

 

I spotted a distant relative!

We took a ride in a train-thing across Serenga to get closer to the animals.

After the ride we went to the lookout point to see the giraffes.

We walked through an abandoned train to see more animals.

Next we visited the last part of the zoo: Nortica

This is the official entrance, but we took a shortcut, so I took this picture when we left Nortica instead of when we entered.

Nortica had polar bears!

And penguins who were swimming much too fast!

I didn't spot Bigfoot.

And luckily these squirrels didn't show themselves either.

Sea lions enjoying the sun.

We also took a virtual space flight over the Arctics and saw a warehouse full of rats, but we didn't get good pictures.

When we saw everything it was almost closing time. My owner's friend drove us home. It was an amazing day!

Gilbert - Wildlands - part 2

 

Back in the domed jungle I spotted this animal lounging on some crates.

He totally wasn't interested in a chat.

Next we had an early lunch.

After lunch we made a boat ride and saw the elephants again.

We also watched a show.

There was this guy singing about surviving in the jungle and stuff, but I thought this chicken was the coolest part of the show!

Next we saw the jungle from above by walking along rope bridges.

We went outside again after that and I spotted these skulls.

And a throne!

King Gilbert.

We reached the end of the Jungola part of the zoo and entered Serenga!

There were friendly goats

And a school were you could learn about goats and donkeys.

Next we went to see the hippos!

It was too cold for them to be outside, so they were in their winter housing.

I need to visit the zoo again this summer to see them in their summer pool.

We saw a sea turtle.

And tortoises!

There were lots of cool animals to see.

More coming soon! 

Gilbert - The Orchid Farm (part 2)

 

We continued our walk through the green houses and saw many beautiful flowers.

Hmmm... Left or right?

I picked right and wasn't disappointed. 

I found more turtles.

And I spotted these weird heads.

This turtle seemed to be napping.

Although... 

The turtles seemed to love it here and didn't seem to be bothered by people admiring them.

A statue of a hunter.

For the next part of our visit I dove into my owner's bag and kept myself hidden, because: 

My owner got to feed the Lorikeets!

They are very pushy and greedy, so I was too afraid they'd try to eat me if I didn't stay safe in my owner's bag.

My owner says it's lots of fun to feed the Lorikeets, and she even had one landing on her head. It sounded a bit scary to me.

She alos saw a Lorikeet taking a bath.

Once again outside of the Lorikeet enclosure I came out of hiding.

And spotted this mini pineapple thingy plant. Not sure if it's really a pineapple or something that looks like a pineapple.

Next we took a short rest and had rhubarb cake and something to drink.

After our break we went to the butterfly habitat.

There were lots of blue butterflies flying around, but those were impossible to get a picture of. Luckily these butterflies were more approachable.

Aren't they pretty?

next: more butterflies & flamingos