Today was our last day of sightseeing here in San Diego and we spent the day at the
San Diego Zoo. Once again, we parked at the Inspiration Point parking lot, which was a good thing as the upper parking lots were filling up. The Zoo opens at 9am and we got to the Balboa Park Visitors Center about 8:55am to buy our tickets ($5 discount each). Turns out the Visitors Center doesn't open until 9:30 and so we had to wait a while.
The weather was just perfect for this outing! Lots of sunshine but cool, so it was very comfortable to meander around. According to the pedometer on my phone, we walked more than 5 miles while we made our way around the exhibits.
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| Victoria Crowned Pigeon |
I visited this Zoo in 1987, when I came to San Diego on Temporary Duty for some training on the Naval Base, and fell completely in love with it. Now fast-forward 28 years and it's still a great Zoo. But I don't think it's quite as nice as it was... because they've crammed so much into the same space, the enclosures are now smaller, and it's confusing to find exhibits and navigate your way around. There are multiple levels to this zoo and decision points (go left, go right?) every 150 yards or so. All that said, the San Diego Zoo is still a "must see" and we were both very glad to spend the day there.
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| Giant Panda |
It was past 3pm by the time we left the Zoo - a bit too late to visit the Museum of Photographic Arts and so that is on our "Next Time" list.
Tomorrow we leave for March Air Reserve Base in Riverside (east of LA).
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| Meerkat chillin' out |
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| Fennec Fox - impossibly cute |
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| Takim |
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