Yorkshire Wildlife Park

 Rachel and I have just had a girls day out at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Nr Doncaster. We were really lucky because the sun shone all day and we had a great time.
The wildlife park is only 5 years old and theres still some development going on in the form of a new area being built for Polar Bears. We decided we would have to go back and see them.
It was really good to wander round and see the animals, none of which are in cages.
The Lion Country area is a large area, you can walk round the perimeter and see the Lions, all of which were rescued from Oradea Zoo in Romania where saldy they had been kept in very bad conditions. How relieved they must be to now be in Yorkshire!
There were lots of opportunities to meet the Rangers and they did talks about the animals and there was a meet the animals area where children got to interact with birds of prey, rabbits etc and even a skunk.
The giraffes have a pretty  fantastic house to live in which was recently constructed to the tune of £350,00 and you can actually go right in and see where and how they live.
All round there were opportunites to get up really close, particularly with the smaller animals and Rachel even got to stroke a Wallaby. And no its not dead in case you wondered!!
All in all a great place to visit.