Last Day at Lion Country

We had our last drive through Lion Country Safari and it is time for us to go.  We are going to take the Airstream up to Orlando and leave it there for a month until we come back to Disney World in February.  That way we don’t have to pull it home and back for no reason.

Our home for the past three weeks.

On our last day, we had a better than usual day with the animals.  The water buffalo has just been fed and they were eating right beside the road.  The Watusi cattle were also eating and showing their gigantic horns just for us.

Water Buffalo feeding time,

The tapirs had also just been fed and they lined up for close pictures.  We have learned so much about all of these animals by being here long enough to really study and live with them.

Tapirs accompanied by a Rhea.

The big treat came at the end of the visit when we got to the chimpanzees when their feeding was being prepared.  The chimps live on five islands and they are rotated among them so that they have a change in environment and so that the empty islands can be cleaned and the habitats refurbished.

There are rotating bridges that can open and close to allow them to move from island to island.  We watched the feeders make preparations and the chimps eagerly watch.  Then we got to watch them cross the bridge just like a group of humans would...some brave and slow and some slow and scared...to their new island.  It was a great end of our whole trip.