BEAR HOLLOW ZOO

Exploring our new home, we found a great park almost in town. The Bear Hollow Zoo is comprised of 225 acres in woods and wetlands, and it offers a home to over twenty-five animals unable to go back into the wild. Many are injured in some way, but there were a few orphans saved and raised by humans (leaving them unable to survive on their own), and a couple of instances where the animal refused to go back into the wild. Following are some pix my guy took:

Here's a hawk:

Notice this owl has only one eye:

The noble-looking bald eagle has a wing injury and can't fly:

The bobcat is named Katie:

Here is the male of the orphaned black bears. Two others are sisters and are several years younger.

This turkey was fascinating! He strutted around like he owned the place, spreading his tail feathers and ambling toward us from behind his fence as if calling for attention. Handsomest bird in the zoo!

This placid deer kept the arrogant turkey company in their large enclosure:

And just to make us feel at home after leaving the island for the hills, the alligator had its own pond:

The zoo is free and the walking is easy! I think we're going to like it here!

WALK

Finally resting up after our travels to the wedding last week, we've begun taking walks again. Here are a few pix from them.

This one is down in the village, looking out on a surly sea. You can see a couple of small boats if you look carefully.

This one was outside the airport. You can see some of the hangars beyond the fence. What I wanted to get was the wildflowers blooming between the road and fence. Scads of little purple and yellow with a few white ones. They don't show up very well here, but they were very pretty.

And these cute little fellows were nestled alongside the road, just sitting there when we walked by from the Village. Their pond was at a condo complex behind us so don't know why they came out to the road.

We have some pretty scenery and cute wildlife around us.