Trinity (Day 3)

Today is Angela's birthday. Lunch packed we decided to visit nearby Jersey Zoo, opened in 1959 and founded by naturalist Gerald Durrell. Today we would become a statistic. Each year approximately 169,000 people visit the zoo each year.

After an unsettled start the day brightened and France was easily visible across the channel. 

Being early in the season the zoo was quiet, so we were easily able to walk around and take in the animals, well the ones that weren't having a lie in. The cold wind meant some of the animals were not allowed outside, but those that were provided us with much entertainment. Particularly the meerkats who posed for photographs, and the orangutans who entertained us by swinging on ropes and branches using their long and powerful arms. Poisonous miniature frogs of metallic blue, luminous orange and yellow were Angela's favourite creature of the day.  Her least, the boa constrictor.

Time flew by, and after lunch we walked around the grounds again, lucky to catch the sleeping sloths now out in their compound after a ten-fifteen-hour sleep. And the highlight, the gorillas, who this morning were not in the mood for visitors now allowing us to photograph them whilst they sat with a look of 'whatever' on their faces. The silverback, Badongo, was particularly stunning.

This evening a meal at the local pub, The Trinity Arms. What a great day.