Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

A couple weeks ago we took a trip to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum by Old Tuscon. We were debating between this and Biosphere II and this trip won because we can always do Biosphere II when the weather sucks. Even though the name says Museum it is really a botanical garden and zoo with native animals.

By the time we got to the park it was close to noon. It was supposed to be sunny skies all day but clouds moved in right after we got there and by 3:30 it was starting to rain. This was a pretty cool park and the kids enjoyed it. They got their own maps and there were animal track ink stations at some of the exhibits so they kids tried to collect all the stamps they could. The park had a pretty cool hummingbird exhibit I just didn't get any pictures in it that were worth sharing. Along with all the reptiles they had javelina. coyote, wild cats and a couple wolves. The wolf was cool because it got down into the bottom of its exhibit then jumped up a 6-8 foot dirt wall. I definitely wouldn't want to be chased down by a wolf after seeing that.












At the sting ray exhibit. Zach was having a good time playing with the sting rays but Adri was being a chicken butt and didn't want to touch them.


An exibit showing how slow a Saguaro cactus grows. The one on the far left is five years old, the middle one is ten years old, and the biggest one is 30 years old.





Bobcats.
Javalina, aka, stink pigs.



Coyote just chilling for the camera.


Mountain Lion
Mexican wolf
Another Mexican wolf.

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