19th August

Today we went on a day out to the south coast. Our first destination was Drusilla's Park. Drusilla's is a zoo park that's been around for 70 years or so, situated between Eastbourne and Brighton. I hadn't been there since my youth and to be honest, it didn't look anything like I remembered it, although my memories are fairly limited.

It's not a large zoo but there were a good range of smaller and medium-sized animals to see. We enjoyed the penguins and the binturong - a creature also called the bear-cat despite being neither bear nor cat.

There was also a wide range of monkeys, gibbons and lemurs and I particularly like this shot of this little fellow.

1st April

We went to visit my little sister in Swindon and she took us to the Cotswold Wildlife Park for the afternoon. It's a lovely Wildlife Park that feels part Country Park, part Zoo. We enjoyed the giraffes, giant tortoises, Humboldt penguins and capybara, but the meerkats were the best for photographing.

This little chap was in an enclosure quite close to a number of bird enclosures so he kept looking around for predators. This was either a fortunate mistake or a very clever move on behalf of the zoo as he was looking around for ages, very alert.