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Sep 13, 2010 22:16

as mentioned, me and Fred went to chester zoo the other day. there was much awesomenes;

- boat ride where we saw monkeys and giraffes from the boat!
- monorail, that goes all over, and has awesome views of many animals.
- BATCAVE , that is a really dark cave full of bats, but with some lights so you can see them, and it is an amazing thing. i wish i coulda got photos in there.
- butterfly house, FULL TO THE TOP with amazing butterflies
- really friendly rhinos!
- amazing meerkats
- good, not expensive food and drinks.
- i paid for 10,000 litres of water to africa, buy buying 2 bottles of water (at £1, cheap and helps people!).
- all the stuff that is sold in the park is conversation/fair trade etc, but at reasonable prices
- penguin enclosure with big water bit and glass sides, so you can see them underwater!
- so much stuff! we struggled to do it all in one day!

we got there early, and met a friendly black rhino, who was shortly joined by her companion, who decided to sleep again.

there were also antelope, some sleepy Sitatungas , some beautiful gemsbok, and these awesome West African Cranes.

Also it's hard to see how tiny that Kirk's Dik-dik is, but it was like, 10cm high. rabbit with long legs! adorable thing!

hmm, i can't go through all of the photos, but there was also mongoose mum and babies!, comical Macaques, a family of meerkats, a fake alligator (either he's fake, or very stoned.).

Hungry hungry Giant Otter! , Some sadly distant Lemurs, mocking us., and this farking huge White Rhino

full set is here , but the very best are below, cut for your bandwidths.



First up, some butterflies, from the awesome butterfly experience thing!







Here's a macaque eating his breakfast




And the Rhino that was stood less than 1 meter away!




Sleepy Croc




Foragey Meerkat




Gemsbok, being awesome.




Chameleon, basking. I really like this shot. Yes, i can't spell. no, i'm not renaming it.




Komodo Dragon. Scary thing!




and the meerkats again, i really like this;




and a Lion, Lying. I'm not lieing.




very close encounter with a mongoose. This enclosure has plastic domes you can go inside to see the mongooses really up close.




This may be my favourite shot - penguin swimming past.




We were lucky to see the Giant Otter at feeding time, but they were so eager to get food that I struggled to get photos of them. Was very cool to see.




Spider Monkey, Spider Monkey, does whatever a spider monkey does..




This is a Rhea. That is all.




Curse you foilage! Move, i want a photo!




Thinking about jumping




Yellow tree frog!




overall, Chester Zoo, awesome.
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