San Diego Zoo and Safari Park

I was at the Safari Park yesterday with Terry and her camera club.  It is actually the first time I've had a good look at the baby gorilla, Monroe.   The Mom (Kokomo) has been a great mother and kept him close to her -- not good for photo ops the few other times I've gone to see him.

He is now 4 months old and she's letting him have a little bit of freedom.  It was extremely enjoyable to watch.  I did get one photo of them that I was happy with.   As you can see here they were enjoying a bit of the sunshine and relaxing.  

Enjoy the link to the Park's website if you would like to read more about him:   Kokomo and Monroe.

San Diego Zoo Safari Park visit

My grandson Shane and I made a trip to the Safari Park today.   His favorite animal, he said, were the lorikeets.  You get to go in their aviary and feed them a special syrupy mix of vitamins.  The birds were hungry today, and Shane was a happy kid!

iPhone photos, used Diptic app to create the 3-in-1 look.  

San Diego Zoo Safari Park

I'm visited the Park this morning and decided to explore the Baja Gardens.  It was fun to wander around these beautiful gardens,  being there brought back memories of living in Baja.

Pat & Dick, these are for you guys.

Sweet love

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Rainbow Lories

One of the most colorful birds at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are the Rainbow Lories.   It's fun to buy the nectar they eat -- it comes in a small paper cup and the birds sit on your hand and drink the nectar while you hold the cup.   Don't you love these colors?  

Elephants

A quick trip to the San Diego Safari Wild Animal park to see the elephants and a few other animals we didn't get to see yesterday. We were up in the Elephant Overlook & I spotted this baby elephant -- such a cute little guy. I've looked on the Zoo web site for a name and birth date but couldn't find it tonight, but will post it as soon as I find out.

San Diego Safari Park outing today

My friend, Cabby, is here for a few days visiting from Reno. We went to La Jolla yesterday to photograph the pelicans, Santee Lake for other birds & ducks, and today the San Diego Safari Park. She treated us to the photo caravan -- and in addition to up-close photography, we got to feed the giraffes and rhinos. This little giraffe (on the left) is four years old & is Cabby's "baby" -- 4 years ago when Cabby visited here she photographed this one being born. The guides on the caravan know their giraffes and were able to introduce Cabby to her. It was fun photographing and feeding all these guys -- they are curious and hungry!

Wild Animal park

I've been so busy processing photos taken in the past few weeks, that I completely forgot about posting to my blog. Here's another photo from the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal park/Safari park. Hope you'll enjoy it. I really enjoyed being there in the late afternoon, most of the animals were still out. This was taken from the tram ride that goes around the park. We caught the last one of the day, 4:15 pm -- highly recommend this time of day if you ever visit the park.

San Diego Wild Animal Park/Safari Park

BTW, the SD Zoo is in the process of renaming the Wild Animal Park: They are now called the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The name change will take place gradually -- main gate is still named Wild Animal park.

Here's a photo of the cheetahs I took last weekend and a link below to the Zoo web site. They are beautiful animals!

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-cheetah.html