Technical Difficulty.

In my last post there were a few typos and spelling mistakes, I can seem to figure out how to go back and fix them. It's time to go to work so I have to work on that technical difficulty tonight. If you read this maybe you can help!!

Darlene

Visit to Papanack Zoo

I am a Girl Guide Leader and this week end we went on a "Mom and Me  Sleepover at Papanack Zoo (Wendover, Ontario, Canada).

We arrived at 11 on Saturday morning and set up out tents in the Zebra pen, no there were not any zebra's present.

We went on a tour of the zoo with a very knowledgeable tour guide Jen. 

We saw the African Lions eating dinner, 

and white Bengal Tigers, they are not albinos as they have some pigmentation in the form of black stripes and blue eyes. I don't think they would survive long in India maybe the Arctic, or not.

an Arctic Fox.

We saw lots of different animals which the girls loved, but they also had a lot of fun in the petting  zoo.

Hmm, who laid these eggs the chicken or the Easter bunny?

Saturday night we enjoyed a short campfire as the girls were very tired and went to bed shortly after 10pm, or was it the moms who were tired. Normally it takes lots encouragement from us leaders for us to get the girls to go to sleep. 

 I forgot to turn my camera back to auto focus after having turned off it off to get better pictures of the animal behind their cages. All my campfire picture are out of focus but I encluded this one anyways. I think it kind of adds to the mystery of the night, notice the full moon.  

I had looked forward to sleeping at the zoo and hearing all the animals at night,unfortunately we were parked beside a road which had lots of speeding traffic all night. This also included, blaring horns and loud music as they passed the zoo.

The next morning we learned from our guide that just down the road she noticed a home with lots of lawn chair circled around a fire, I hope this doesn't happen regularly, it is not fair to the animals or visitors!

We did hear the lions roar, and the wolves howl between noisy par-tiers. At times it seemed the lions were right outside the tent.  

This guys clock is all messed up and he liked to cock-a-doodle which added to the noise!

The Pond May 2009