Busch Gardens, Tampa-Jan. 31, 2019

I was really looking forward to spending our day at Busch Gardens. When our children were small we had been a few times to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. The one in Tampa has a different theme. Instead of countries, it is set in Africa ; besides rides and shows there are a lot of animals in their natural habitats. It was partly sunny and reached 68 by early afternoon.

Posing with the gorilla. He was friendly!

The chimpanzees were eating. They put their food in bags to make it more of a challenge. . Glad we didn’t pose with these fellas.

This guy was huge! Wonder what he was thinking?

There were two different kinds of flamingoes. The Chilean flamingo were orange in color. The others were a lighter pink. .

This is the kind of truck that took us on our 30 minute safari tour. We had to hold on tight. The ride was bumpy but provided great visibility and was user friendly for a giraffe visit.

This is what it looks like from a distance when a giraffe comes to say hello.

Everyone in our truck got a chance to feed our visiting giraffe a leaf of romaine lettuce. Our tour guide explained that for them it is a treat. Giraffe’s tongues are really long and wet! I can’t imagine what it would have been like if serveral giraffes had come to feed at the same time. There was plenty of excitement with just one!

All right folks, who has lettuce? I think her name was Ginny!

This alligator enjoyed the sun as much as we did! We stayed respectfully behind the fence to snap his picture.

Colorful birds along with a Florida crane posing nicely for me.

Besides the animals, we also took in two shows. One was a doo-wop show with singers and dancers. They were really talented and sang songs from the 50’s and 60’s. There was also an ice skating show that was also well done. These routines were set to more present day music, so I did not find it quite as enjoyble. Must be showing my age!

We watched the kangaroos eating eucalyptus leaves. It was fun watching them hop around too.

This hyena reminded me of Lion KIng! He looked evil.

We left the park around six. After quite a busy day, we decided to head back to our rental to heat up leftovers from the past two nights. We were ready to relax and watched a few shows of Grace and Frankie on Netflix before we called it a day.

Busch Garden indeed was a very interesting place without even going on one single ride. The best part was that it wasn’t crowded! I’ll never forget our hungry giraffe!

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