Videos

Today we returned to Chase Sanctuary to enjoy a special “swim with otter” special event (which may be repeated in the future, I don’t know). We met the 4 month old baby otter “Daphne” and her keeper (and seemingly best friend) Brody, and spent more than half an hour in a big pool interacting with Daphne – she in turn was so very entertaining and shared her time with all four of us! Here of course are some photos (and a couple of videos too):

Here is video of “Daphne” playing with a stick:

And here, Daphne was fascinated by my Crocs, reaching in through the holes and when I took one off, running away with it as a trophy!

We returned to Wild Florida today to drive their safari park, always a nice time and of course lots of photos!

We also of course fed the Giraffe!

We then drove a little to the “zoo” walk through area, which had some great views of a sloth family and also ring tailed lemurs!

And finally, video from throughout the day …

We’ve had a couple of cold-for-Florida mornings and today started at 38f (4c); the Manatees swim in to warm springs in weather like this so we headed to Blue Spring State Park – where there were 500+ for us to try and see. It’s not too hard to spot the Manatees as shadows in the water, and sometimes a nose will pop up to breath, but it’s quite hard to photograph them … but this is what I captured for you (after a lot of deleting!)

Here also is one video: