Caryn and I decided to head down to the Pretoria Zoo to see what we could see. It’s always awesome to see that the Pretoria Zoo is constantly upgrading the living areas of their animals and that they are always in super great shape. They are currently busy building a new seal / penguin enclosure that looks huge, I’m definitely looking forward to that!

Read about our zoo trip after the jump!

Caryn and I walked the zoo in the unconventional right to left fashion so as to end up with the aquarium instead of start with it. So we began with the vultures and the primates and then moved on to the savanna… Three lions have been moved down the mountain to the Africa exhibit section to make it easier to get a look at them.

After that we crossed our first bridge towards the aviary! I love walking in the huge aviary and getting to see all the strange birds they have in there!

After a tiring walk up the mountain we saw some strange looking white antelope (there wasn’t a tag on the fence to let us know what they were :<) as well as our orginal lion trio! Tony the tiger was up there too! The other tigers were down below in the shade roaring like crazy.

Any ideas?

It’s GRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEAAAT!!!

We then found an old friend…

We found Themba!

Bears are just awesome!

The seals were being cleaned and were jumping around their temporary area like a bunch of crazy folk! We headed through the Australia section and got to see the koala bears… unfortunately none of my photos of them came out nicely. After that was the pygmy hippos and accross our final bridge.

We walked up past the old elephant to the aquariam and reptile park… you always see awesome things there!

Aw!

Komodo!

Some aligators!

Exhausted, over heated and content we headed back home for a much needed swim!

^5!

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