After a couple of long days of fishing (if you can even call it fishing when we didn't really catch anything), we spent a day playing tourists. How could we possibly be 30 miles from "America's Largest Wild Animal Petting Park" and not check it out?!
When was the last time you got to pet a baby black bear!
The caged animals at this petting park are not real active. But, if you lived in an 10' x 10' cage would you be real active?
They were beautiful animals to look at.
We made it back over to the petting part just in time for the cute animals to come out. This little guy lived up to his look. He was into everyone's business looking for something to steal.
He kept chasing this albino skunk.
Ohh, but then the baby opossums came out and my heart melted. I need one of these little guys. He was so snuggly! He was also very curious.
He quickly decided he wanted to see what was under my shirt!
Not to fear, I got him detoured before we had a real incident.
It was getting close to lunchtime and the animals were settling in for their afternoon naps.
There were mating rituals going on right around us. This peacock was showing its feathers to entice the other peacocks.
We got to actually watch this mama baboon teach her baby baboon to walk. She would set him down and turn around and walk a few feet. He would stand there and scream at her. She would turn around and look at him with a look only a mother has and he would take a few steps towards her before she would turn back around and walk a few more feet. This went on for a while and we all just stood there in awe knowing this was not something you get to see everyday.
I love that these llamas look like they are setting Scott up for something.
Scott was traumatized by watching this bear who knew if he did this trick, the spectators would throw food to him. It reminded Scott of all the stories and pictures we have seen about the history of the bears in the National Parks and how they became accustomed to begging tourists for food.
There, of course, were the rodents of unusual size. (Name that movie!)
And this guy who really didn't care about performing for anyone.
The weather was so beautiful, and we definitely could have taken a nap, but we had too much to see so we continued on to the beautiful town of Bandon. The people of Bandon have done a wonderful job of making their waterfront very clean and welcoming. There were remains of the past, when logging was big in this community.
There were also several of these elaborate carvings all along the waterfront.
But the highlight of the day in Bandon was visiting the Coquille River lighthouse. This lighthouse was built in 1896 and is on the list of National Historical Landmarks. We waited for our turn so that we could take the tour all the up to the light room at the top. How can you go all the way to the coast and not visit a lighthouse?
We had such a great time during our five days at the coast! Hopefully we won't let eight more years go by before we do this again.
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