Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium – part 1

What a wonderful gorgeous day at the zoo we had yesterday! We saw over 20 different animals and got to explore the newly opened Animal Avenue. At the Animal Avenue and Kids’ Zone we got to see…

Ring-tailed lemurs

Poison Arrow Frogs (Blue and Green/Black) along with

Meerkats
Black Lemurs
Green Crested Basilisk lizard
Ocellated Ray
Parma Wallaby (shy-but cute)
Antilles Pink-Toed Tree Spider (this spider was HUGE!)
Western Bell’s Hinge-back Tortoise…
and then we (Isabel) got distracted by all the play-ground toys and of course the Otter SLIDE! This was Isabel’s first time on the otter slide…she would have spent the rest of the day going down it if we would have let her…

Jumping off an alligators back.

Going down the otter slide.

So we headed over to see the Asian Forest Sanctuary with the elephants, tigers and monkeys. Here we got to see…

Siamang and Malayan tapir.
These two were teasing each other while we were there. So funny to watch!

Female white-cheeked gibbon (she looked so sad) along with…

Sumatran tigers (he was sleeping…all the times we’ve gone to the zoo; they are sleeping)
Lowland anoas
Asian otters
and of course the Asian Elephants (BTW- who kept their rears to us the whole time!)

As we were walking along the paths from exhibit to exhibit the zoo had gorgeous flowers blooming. I had to bend down and get a few shots to share.

Stunning red ones…

Vibrant violet ones…

Beautiful blues.

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