Black Isle Wildlife Park

The home education group we get together with each month had been planning a "field trip" to the Black Isle Wildlife Park for several weeks now and today was the day. Of course, that meant it would be pouring rain all morning - and we were supposed to meet up at half past 12 .

I invited my friend Sharon and her daughters to come along as well so she came to the house this morning. It was soooo wet that we weren't sure what we'd end up doing - or if we'd have to cancel the whole outing, which would of course be quite disappointing for the children. We ended up having lunch together at the house - hoping the rain would eventually stop! In the end it did! Yay! So we left here sometime after 1:30. Unfortunately not all of the regular people were able to make it for the trip but two families did - and although they arrived long before us, we still got to see them for a bit, so that was nice. The weather was just perfect - not a drop of rain until we were already getting into the car ready to leave. So the day was a success after all - tho looking out the window this morning, you'd never have guessed!

Abigail and Benjamin had lots of fun looking at all the animals and running about - even if they were both a bit overtired before we started. They both fell asleep just before we got there! Poor things! Abigail woke up soon after we got out of the car (tho still looked tired for a while) and Benjamin would have probably slept for ages if we hadn't got him out of the pushchair and woke him up! He soon ran around though and looked soo pleased to see the animals.


A peacock (there were lots of them there)

Feeding the goats

One of several zebras

Emus

A wallaby (bit like a mini kangaroo) - we got to walk inside the fenced area with them in it, which was neat! This one was friendly and didn't leave until Benjamin rather followed him at a quick pace! He really likes kangaroos and kept saying "Kaarooo"! :)

Wallaby again, starting to hop away

Abigail with Sharon, Felicity & Heidi

Benjamin and a duck - he loved being able to run along after them - especially as they weren't very scared of him! Though he wasn't very impressed with the greedy geese that kept following him and honking!

Abigail & Felicity playing in the sand! It was lovely for Abigail to have a wee friend today that is of a similar age. It seems it's always far older children or little boys, so it's nice they got to spend time together. :)

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