Friday, May 27, 2011

Turtleback Zoo - 1974



I wish that I could remember my day at the zoo - looks like I was having fun there. My brother was just at the Turtleback Zoo earlier this month. I was only there this one time but really would like to go back there sometime soon. It is much bigger now and they have one of my favourite animals, a river otter. I sent my brother's photos to the Walgreens site and got copies of the 3 otter pictures plus 38 others for myself. I hope to get over my driving anxiety so that I won't be afraid to take the Parkway to get to the zoo. There is also a zoo in Brooklyn that has a river otter that I was thinking about going to instead because I can just take the NJ Transit train into NYC and then get on the subway that would take me there. I'll see which I'm up to doing this summer. I'm torn on my views of zoos though - sometimes I think that it's awful that animals are stuck in such a place but I do like watching the animals there. I've been to the Bronx Zoo and the National Zoo in Washington D.C. also.

3 comments:

Chelly said...

Love those pics. I'll have to post my zoo pics as well. Although, in mine, you can clearly see that I'm slightly cautious(scared shitless) of the deer. My parents wanted pics similar to yours (idyllic and magical) but they got my version instead :)

ISRAEL CARRASCO said...

I like the older faded pics. Now everything is digital

LaraAnn said...

Chelly - I'm so glad that you liked these.I'm looking forward to seeing your zoo photos. I am suprised that I wasn't afraid of the deer, actually. I think that I would be more afraid of it now though.

ISRAEL - I agree. Digital does have some positive things about it but I will always love the old photos more. I mistakenly got copies of many of them in glossy instead of matte finish and I wasn't pleased with the way that they looked.

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