Photos, we got photos

So we went to the Antwerp Zoo on Saturday. It's a nice zoo. It is also right in the middle, I mean the very center, of Antwerp. So it has not entirely made the shift to the "new style" zoo, where the animals are sort of roaming about in little habitat-ettes. Being surrounded on all sides by, basically, Antwerp, they probably haven't got the room.

They still have the big cats in basically what I think of as bear pits (You remember, those spaces down lower than ground level so you stand and look down at the animals) and surrounded by moats. The medium sized cats are in cages, just like they used to have at the old Atlanta Zoo. It was actually sort of jarring, I had forgotten what a regular zoo used to be like to tell you the truth.

However, I have got pictures. Which is all you lot care about.




The fellas hanging out with the penguins.















This is Douwe with his new friend. He hung out with this turtle for a really long time. Actually, the reptile house was amoung the larger hits. That and the nocturnal house, which is entirely dark inside for the animals that are, well, nocturnal. He really liked the bats. ick.








Obligatory tourist shot. By the time I took this picture, Douwe had figured out that we were getting ready to leave and was trying to run away to go back into the zoo. So he's not in the shot.