Reptiles, Bears and Fairies

Based on a recommendation (albeit from someone who goes to lots of Renaissance fairs - where people dress up in civil war costume and reenact battles) we decided to visit the Reptile gardens. It turned out to be a great recommendation, lots of slow moving tortoises, cold blooded reptiles and poisonous snakes - so just like being at work then.

This was actually the 3rd largest display of reptiles in the world, so its was pretty impressive.
Dan and Becky enjoyed it loads - how can you not love a 150 year old tortoise.

Demonstration of how to climb onto a crocodile's back, should the fancy ever take youThere were loads of very poisonous snakes (this one was harmless though) all graded by how venomous they were which obviously appealed to Dan and me.
They also had prairie dogs, not sure if they breed them to feed to the snakes?
After the reptiles we went to find dinosaurs (they have a dinosaur park apparently) but even with the aid of GPS we were unable to find it (how hopeless is that). So off we went to see the bears in Bear Country USA.

All in all the bears were impressive but you had to drive around this loop road and it was pretty expensive for 10 minutes of bear spotting. Back at the shed, Dan had managed t wiggle the second of his front teeth free, so we also got to spot fairies that evening.