Keeping the Kids Occupied

Oakland Zoo had much offer little people and, on a Friday here, a large cohort of the visitors was in the under-10 and indeed under-5 age group judging by the enormous array of strollers. Apart from viewing the large numbers of animals associated with the Africa Sahel belt or tropical Asia, there were (A) children's play areas, (B) a chair lift which went a long way up the hillside way above animal enclosures so that one could float above lions and tigers, (C) a rather nice train trip to the Australia Outback, and (D) a small fun-fair. Ella sampled all these and Flynn most of them except for the chairlift where getting him on and holding him still would have been a challenge.

Let's have a look at this side of the Zoo:

Flynn standing beside a tortoise shell which Ella had just climbed through.

Ella and Flynn playing with a large red frog - just a model I'm afraid.

View over the zoo.

Ella takes to the steering wheel of a Jeep

And Ella's first ride on a carousel.

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