Wednesday, August 16, 2006 C
"Jungle Critters!"
6:18pm
(Lotsa of jungle critters, I apologize in advance to dial up readers...;)
Our day spent seeing critters began with an odd sight in the Pepper Market, the resort's cafeteria:
Could it be Horus in drag?
I took a brief look at Aztec deities, there is nothing like this, perhaps in one of the American Indian mythologies, but then it could be a Disneyification. I like the bird, nonetheless.
Well, but expensively fed, we then got on the bus to the Animal Kingdom. From having studied, I knew I most wanted to see the Maharajah Jungle Trek and the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail. We started with the jungle trek. It is set up to look like an Asian paradise, with old ruins and other artifacts here and there.
Oh, the lushness of the place is gorgeous:
Yes, that is a constructed mountain for the 'Expedition Everest' ride, but it's still scenic.
I did not yet know how to use the 'zoom' feature, or these komodo dragon pics would have been much bigger and better detailed, instead of a tiny crop out of a huge picture:
Same for these bats:
Near the bat area, they had a closed in area which had smaller critters in glass cages. The camera's 'macro' feature did good to capture a shy snake:
And I was real pleased with the capture of this tree frog:
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