It was raining early that morning, but the skies cleared on the road south.
The DH tunes out with his MP3 player.
The entry walk into the zoo
The DH gets dreads,lol
The DH meets Karla the macaque and the Cassowary
The Bear-cat napped the day away
The DH & I in the garden
Meet Bong, the 16ft Saltwater crocodile
He came out of his pool for feeding time
The DH was totally enamored by him,lol!
Green Iguana sunning himself on his rock
4 Whistling ducks all in a row
My BIL takes the ostrich's portrait
One of the raptors interrupts his meal to glare haughtily at us.
Just a few of the many varieties of birds at the zoo. There's a breeding station on site too. And pairs of birds are available for sale.
The DH and Tito Elic
Anoy Ricky joins Jem & Tito Elic
The DH kept returning to the crocodile's pen again and again!
The Green Iguana just changes lounge-venue
The DH meets the Albino Burmese Python
In vintage Filipino comics, there is a character called Zuma. He was a bald-headed muscle bound man who had a huge 2-headed snake on his shoulders. The DH could be his stand-in! :)
I'm actually more at ease with pythons now. The 1st time I touched one was in Davao in 2009. There were about 10 of us in a row and we held 1 16-ft python among us. What freaked me out then was feeling its huge muscles moving under the cool dry skin, yikes! This time, it was't as bad.
I cannot help but admire it's sleek gorgeousness! Truly God's gift.
With Edna, the Zoo's curator and Tito Elic's girl Friday
My SIL Arlene and her daughter Isabelle
My BIL Ricky trying to soothe the snake.
There was even the extremely rare Albino Visayan Spotted Deer
...and her sweet little fawn.
Tito Elic had carnivorous plants on his porch. He had both local and imported varieties of the pitcher plants. And even Venus flytraps but they just small buds where the "mouths" were supposed to grow from.
I didn't catch what this particular cockatoo's real species name was but Tito Elic said it's one of the 50 rarest birds of all times. And he has this one trained to fly to his hand.
A souvenir shot outside his house (around which the Zoo is situated)
Over all, it was a fun day for all of us. Even if we missed lunch! We did eat it, but about 3 hours late. Yeah, we got really caught up with all the animals and taking all those photos. I had brought a small pan of my Walnut-Raisin-Chocolate Banana bread, and the slices practically flew off the pan with so many hungry adults and kids digging in.
Hope you can come visit this tiny but oh-so-packed zoo soon too. Truly an educational experience for kids and adults alike. :)
Abientot, mes amis!
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