Giraffes and rhinos

Our daughters and their families gave Linda and I the "Photo Caravan" 3-1/2 hour tour at the San Diego Wild Animal Park in Escondido for Christmas. Today was our day - it was cool and windy. The truck goes out among the tamer animals with a driver and a tour guide. Vicki was the guide, and she was excellent. She took some of our pictures.

"Look me in the eye..." The giraffes are fascinating - so big, so gentle, long blue tongue. We were told not to touch them.


They eat acacia leaves only - so the guide had a supply for everybody to take a turn feeding them.

The big surprise was how docile the white rhinos are. They come right up to the truck and are fed apple slices. They open up, you drop it in. You can pet them too. We did - fun!

SD Wild Animal Park pix

Our daughters gave us the San Diego Wild Animal Park "Photo Caravan" 3-1/2 hour tour for Christmas, and we used it today. It was cool and windy, but it was a good day for pictures. There are about 15 people in the truck, with a driver and a tour guide. Vicki was the guide, and was very knowledgeable and helpful.

This is a white rhino "crash" (a herd) mostly resting, but they got up close! They hemmed in the truck once and we had to wait for them to move away.


The water buffalo think they are the boss of the plains - they even look mean.

The ostriches are loose - and we didn't get too close to them.

Aren't the oryx beautiful?

This deer had velv et on his antlers and was shedding his winter coat - they all were.

We had a great time!