The day before my Colchester wedding (see previous post) I'd decided to pay a visit to Whipsnade Zoo as it was kind of en-route. I wanted to visit Whipsnade so much because it's one of the only UK zoos (that I know of) that have moose.
The M3 & M25 from Southampton were so surprisingly free flowing that I actually arrived at the zoo before the gates opened, which meant that I was one of the first in and for the first 15 minutes I kinda had the zoo to myself.
My first stop in the zoo was of course to visit the moose. They had 4 moose in the zoo, an adult male & female, and 2 calfs just a few months old.
I got to spend a few minutes alone with the adult male, so close that I could have reached out and touched him.
I've only ever seen one adult male moose before, in the wilds of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. There in all the excitement I hadn't really taken the time to notice just how huge these beasties were. The male was easily 6 feet tall at the shoulder. It made me realise what might have happened if the wild moose I'd photographed had have turned on me... more so because I was the closest person to him at the time.
Apparently Whipsnade also have other animals on display, but I only had eyes for moose! ;-)
Only one photo that I actually like here (the lead photo above) but have included a few more just because...
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