16/04/2020
Apologies for not posting anything lately but with home schooling my 3 children and Easter there was too much going on. Anyway let’s get back to the trip down memory lane. These were our original enclosures when the zoo opened that housed peacocks, pheasants, owls and koalas at the other end and to the right of this picture is where the fairy penguins went eventually. Later on this area became the small primate exhibits. Pygmy marmosets, cotton top, emperor and golden lion tamarins and the grass area became the Asian small clawed otter exhibit. Today this is now part of the entrance/cafe/meerkats and terrace eating area that over looks the silvery gibbons. The building at the end of the picture has also been many things over the years. Started as a stable and then housed a big reticulated python and food prep room and is now the keeper room or maybe that’s changed again since we left. I look through all of these photos and remember so many things I had forgotten, I used to spend hours running around these paths playing, climbing the fences and jumping over the seats. Some of these pictures I even see the trees that now are huge like the little tree to the right of this picture.
