San Diego Zoo

Today we made our last trip into San Diego. We spent the day at the zoo. It was a beautiful, sunny day in the upper 80's.

It was too hot for some of the animals but many others entertained us.

Our favorite animals of the entire visit were the Panda Bears. They were so cute and cuddly. They don't like noise so we were routed through a special viewing area and asked to use our 'soft voices'. We saw three different Pandas. We saw them at close range and a docent was present giving a narration.

The common zoo animals were in good form - elephant, giraffe, apes, monkeys and birds.

I know we walked through four aviaries, and I believe there may have been some we missed.

The bear in the last photo spent most of the day soaking in his water pool. On our last trip past his cage, he had climbed out of the water and lay exhausted against a rock. It is a rough life being a zoo animal.