The trip started off with a 20 minute boat ride from the main gift shop/information center to the park. The guide gave us lots of information about the park, and we saw some wildlife on the trip.
All Little Guy could think about was the hippo, so headed there first. Boy, was he huge! 6,000 pounds, which is twice as large as hippos usually get in the wild.
We learned a lot in the information session, which took about 20 minutes or so, and during which Little Guy listened attentively the whole time! I was pretty amazed by that. He was taking in (and sometimes repeating to me) all that was told to us.
In case you're wondering about the splatter zone sign, hippos are very territorial (which we witnessed first hand as Lu snorted and chased a few ducks out of his pool), and they mark their territory by spinning their tail and "using the bathroom."
From Lu the Hippo, we moved on to the manatee encounter, which was awesome! The manatee is an endangered species and our state animal. We got to see them from above,
Then, we headed off to take a look at the other animals.
Little Guy was pretty happy because the snake in the above picture completed his "roasted fox, owl ice cream, scrambled snake" list. Can you tell he loves The Gruffalo?
We even came across some animals that weren't on our map.
It took us about 3 hours to visit the entire park. We took the tram ride back to the main parking lot and checked out some of the displays they had in the information center.
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