Leaving The Missus to get on with her teacher training programme assignment, we had a special half-term day out to Banham Zoo yesterday. Checking my photo archives it nearly 4 years since we had last been, when Big Miss was Little Miss's current age and Little W was still in his pushchair. The zoo is 40 years old this year and now has almost 1000 animals.
We arrived in time to see the otters and meerkats being fed and then the penguins - you could tell their food was coming when a bunch of seagulls came squawking! In between we saw the rather cute colobus monkeys. The youngest one was particularly playful.
But the highlight for me is the big cats. The tigers are especially impressive.
Little Miss had quite a close encounter (through the glass).
Something new since we were last there is the giraffes. The giraffe house is still being completed - there is an upstairs viewing area and elevated walkway that are not open yet, so we had to content ourselves with a knee-level rather than eye-level view.
Here is Rachel giving the feeding time talk with the cheetah twins. She had a little trouble throwing the meat over the fence, which as to be quite high to keep the cats in.
We had a great day out. You can see more of our photos here on Flickr.
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