Butterfly World and Amazon World Zoo Park

We started the morning by heading over to Fiona's to see off Ollie her son and James' cousin who had come down for a day to see us, come out for his grandparents anniversary dinner, and spend some time with his family on the bank holiday. Bill and Janine then kindly took us out to Butterfly World before lunch. We got to see many beautiful species from all around the world. 

White Tree Nymph

Citrus Swallowtail

Great Owl Butterfly

White Morpho Butterfly

 We also got to see a lot of the chrysalises and were privileged enough to even see one butterfly hatch out which was truly amazing!

All the Chrysalises lined up

 After a lovely lunch at Fiona's Molly and James had a rather interesting game of pool together...

While Gus joined in on very important family conversations.....

In the afternoon James wanted a bit of quiet time so he went back to his Grandparents while Fiona and I headed to Amazon World Zoo Park. 

There were heaps of birds and turtles:

           Some of the birds had amazing headgear...

         Some were Flamingos and Red Ibis...

                    

         and some were Penguins that were moulting....

                   

          But my favourites were the Toucans!

      

         And the Macaw that repeatedly said "Hello" to me! 

There were also heaps of other animals such as:

The Ocelot:

An Armadillo: 

Cotton Top Tamarins:

A Red Panda: 

And Wallabies:

           

Luckily much of the exhibits were indoors in heated environments to simulate the tropics so we were out of the rain for most of the time. Another wonderful day - our last in fact for this trip!