I had been due to be working today, but managed to get an extra day off so what to do? It was between Crich Tramway Museum and Yorkshire Wildlife Park, and as we hadn't been since they extended the wildlife park we chose to go and see the animals.
We booked for 10am as that's when the park open, and it looked like half the world had also booked for the same time as we joined a queue of about 300m; that's 300 metres, not 300 million people of course!
That said it didn't take that long for the queue to go down, but it did mean that most people were jammed into the new part of the park where they have moved the entrance to.
The Sea Lions are arguably the stars of the start of the journey, there are 6 of them in a great new enclosure, all of them I believe had been brought here from Whipsnade. We were at the park for four and a half hours, and it was very warm so we were very thankful of the odd breeze that blew across the park, however, some of the animals were also trying to keep cool in the sun so were either laying down out of the way or hiding in the shade. In particular the big cats who really didn't want to bother with the public.
We were quite fortunate with the two rhinos as they came over to feed near the fence where we were stood so we got to see them up close and personal, and many of the other animals were relatively accessible, to see of course, not to touch.
The two highlights for me were the Howler Monkeys who were making a right racket as they howled to warn people of their territory, and also the Armadillo who appeared to be training for the Olympics as he ran loops around his enclosure.
There's always the argument around whether animals should be kept in captivity, even if like at the YWP they do have plenty of space, but it's all around preservation so difficult to argue against to some extent. So lets just enjoy what we have.
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