Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Living Desert Animals

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The Living Desert
The Living Desert has desert animals from the American Southwest, Mexico and Africa, including bighorn sheep, mountain lions, Mexican wolves, giraffes, zebras, cheetahs, warthogs, leopards......and much more

Following are pictures of some of the animals we saw in our visit here.
Fall, Winter and cool days of Spring is great to come visit, the Summer is just too hot here.
The weather for us was in the mid 70's, just perfect.

We were not able to see everything, so we will be back.

We were walking by this rocky hill and did not think there were animals here. When we sat down at a bench we realized there were animals there. The longer we sat there the more of them we saw. There were bighorn sheep in different areas of the hill. They sure blended well with the color of the hill. We had fun sitting there watching to see how many of them we finally could see.





Some of the wild birds of this desert area


These birds were big






We went to the Wild Wonders Show


This big owl was one of the stars


This bird was very fast and flew/glided so close to people's heads, the lower the people ducked the lower he went.



This fox was so cute. It had really big ears.



There was a race between two turtles. This one made it to the food first.





Walking to go see the giraffes




It was worth the walk because the giraffes were just stunning and beautiful


There were about four big giraffes, and..........



.........a baby giraffe was also there.......so cute:-)





Mom Harty and I in front of a hut of the Village Watutu area of the park.



The birds in this village were smaller and very colorful



There were a few shops here. One of the shops was similar to my name,....ZULU Grass Jewelery.


The Leopards were very active and just beautiful cats




Gordon and his Mother walking to see more animals. Mom Harty really liked this park. She said she had a great time.



The zebras





Beautiful cranes




African Gazelles


Arabian Oryx


The Living Desert Plants

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One of the unique features of the Living Desert were the gardens representing the botanical diversity of the deserts of the American southwest and Mexico, Africa, and Madagascar. Unfortunately we were not able to walk the botanical gardens part of the park because it closes at 5 pm and we had to go. So, we'll have to come back and walk the botanical gardens.

The following pictures are of some of the decorative desert plants we saw as we walked around.













The Living Desert Butterfly Exhibit

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We visited the butterfly exhibit at The Living Desert. They had a lot of butterflies and we got to walk among them. The butterflies were just beautiful!!!!

Above is Gordon and his Mom sitting at the butterfly bench.

They have flowers and plants butterflies love everywhere

Gordon and his Mom walking around enjoying the butterflies



















We had to watch our step because there were often butterflies on the floor


close up of one of the butterflies on the ground