Zoo (245/365)

[white_hart]

My mother went to the zoo near my parents' home a few weeks ago with my brother and sister-in-law and their children, and was telling me how much she enjoyed it, so we thought we'd give it a try while we're here.



They had some lovely otters, and a possibly-debauched or possibly just tired sloth.



It was a nice zoo - fairly small, but big enough to spend a couple of hours wandering round. And it was really nice to go out and do something fun together, for pretty much the first time in eighteen months.

After the zoo I went for a lovely swim in the Little Ouse near Thetford, which was incredibly clear, cold and surprisingly fast-flowing (though shallow enough that in the bits where making headway against the current was difficult I could just wade instead).

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

Sounds like a very pleasant day. I find zoos a lot of fun.

[white_hart]

So do I - modern zoos are often really lovely. Unlike the ones of my childhood which tended to be full of very miserable looking animals. (I particularly remember a sad polar bear on a hot day somewhere. They wouldn't do that now.)

[lexin]

Those pictures are really good. I especially like the sloth, but I have a soft spot for sloths.

[white_hart]

It was a fabulous sloth.