Easter 2012 – Day 10
After a leisurely breakfast, we decided to go into Adelaide for the day
we visited Haigh’s chocolate factory – and did a tasting. lovely chocolate, of course we had to buy some!
We drove around the city seeing the old buildings such as the art gallery, museum. Then drove thru the Botanic Gardens which had some large lovely trees and was nice and green
we saw the Torrens river where a variety of people jogged / picnicked around the edge
A visit to the zoo was next, it was a good size not too big or small, we saw Hippo’s, Lion, Tigers, sun Bear, Koala’s, siames, gibbons,tapirs etc
and of course, the main reason for the visit..the Giant Panda’s. Wang Wang was in an enclosed glass area before he moved to the outside exhibit, where he roamed around and sat down in front of us, breaking off and peeling pieces of Bamboo, he then also set about playing with a few of his toys.
a further walk to the nocturnal house, bird Avery. before having a quick bite to eat. As the zoo announced that closing was in 1/2 hour before closing we walked back to have another look at the beautiful Panda’s, Both Fungi & Wang Wang were in the glass enclosures eating, so we got to see them again before leaving, a few dollars spent in the Panda shop where we bought a cute stuffed Panda, posters & a magnet for Brendan.
We drove to St Peters Cathedral & saw the Adelaide Oval – was being re vamped
We stopped off at Mt Lofty look out and arrived just on sunset, it started to get a bit chilly but we managed to get some beautiful pictures
After tea we viewed the photos we had taken for the day, Aunty Gay was astounded that the Pandas were moving around, when she saw them they were asleep all day
