Bronx Zoo –10 September

The last Sunday before I started my job, Gill and I went to the Bronx Zoo – caught the subway up from 72nd for about 30-40 minutes and had a five minute walk at the other end to the zoo itself.

It’s set in a huge area, with lots of woodland – difficult to believe that its actually in the middle of the Bronx. We got a year’s membership, which lets us go back as much as we like and gives us access to the Central Park Zoo, the NY Aquarium and a few other things. This is a good thing as we didn’t actually get to see it all this trip.

We did get to see quite a lot – the impressive bird house…

The tigers….

The gorilla enclosures - and there are different ones - there's the thinkers......and there's the laid back moms...

Anyway, we also saw giraffes and ostriches…

Camels (note: That's Gill in the front and camels in the back)…

Baboons, including one very bored-looking male who insisted on playing with himself. Gill’s comment: “You’re a baboon, what else are you going to do all day?”

We also rode the Skyride – a cable car across the park which did not go down very well with Gill (who was all for it till we got up there!)

The World of Darkness was also pretty impressive – although obviously, flash photography is a no-no there (despite the idiots using it….where are the zoo staff when you need ‘em?)

All in all, a good day out and well worth the trip up there – especially as we now essentially have free tickets for the rest of the year and all next summer.