The Little Zoo That Could

jonh68jonh68 Registered Users Posts: 2,711 Major grins
edited May 1, 2007 in Wildlife
The Gulf Shores Zoo is down the road from me. Some of you who watch the Animal Planet know it as the Little Zoo That Could. It's featured because it was evacuated 2-3 times within a year to avoid hurricanes. The first two are from last year and the rest were last weekend. First two were shot with Nikon D50 and 70-300mm, rest with the D50 and 18-200mmVR. All processed through DxO.



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  • deeyadeeya Registered Users Posts: 147 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2007
    Great Shots
    More great shots Jon.... I'm actually headed down to the zoo this weekend unless something comes up. I haven't been down there before and am looking forward to the trip.

    I read recently that they had some land donated to them a bit further north that will keep them from having to evacuate so often.
    Denise
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  • jonh68jonh68 Registered Users Posts: 2,711 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2007
    I actually talked to the man who donated the land, Clyde Weir. The plan is for the zoo to sell the current property and take that money to build the new zoo. Stipulation is they have to stay in the current location until the new zoo is built.

    If you have time, I recommend going through the zoo 3 times. It is small enough to do that and you will see different things each time as the animals are active at different times. Well, maybe not Chuckie the alligator.
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  • deeyadeeya Registered Users Posts: 147 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2007
    jonh68 wrote:
    ...the animals are active at different times. Well, maybe not Chuckie the alligator.

    Laughing.gif Chuckie is probably only active after a hurricane when he has "escaped". :)

    I'll keep your suggestion in mind... I hope to spend a good part of the day down there.
    Denise
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  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2007
    John, just kill me now.!! iloveyou.giflustiloveyou.giflustiloveyou.giflustiloveyou.giflustiloveyou.giflustiloveyou.giflustiloveyou.giflustiloveyou.giflustiloveyou.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2007
    Excellent set with good use of the light. thumb.gif
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