Due to starting my new blog, Admit One Movie Reviews 
I've neglected this one a little as of late. I have been out with my camera a fair bit, but it's mostly to cover the summer brief and I don't want to post those pictures up here until after we've gone back to uni (I won't go into why).So, a couple of weeks ago Chris and I travelled down south for a couple of days.
On the first day, we visited Longleat safari park, but more on that in a little...
On the first day, we visited Longleat safari park, but more on that in a little...The second day saw us in Winchester where we wandered around the streets looking for breakfast before heading out to Portsmouth later the same day. We headed to the Spinnaker tower, a 170m tower that somewhat resembles a ship's sail.
I photographed it from below, and against the blue sky it makes a striking image. There were three levels at the top, the first contained a glass floor that you could walk on. I wasn't brave enough to walk on it myself, but I photographed the view looking down. Not for the faint hearted. The main reason we went up the tower was to photograph the view of the city below for part of the summer brief. There were some great shots to be had from up there!
The day before we visited Longleat, I've never been to a safari park before, and Longleat was great as there were many other attractions, Jungle Kingdom, The Hedge Maze (which we did in record time!), a boat ride around the lake, a train ride around the park, the bat cave, the manor house, plenty of shops, hand feeding and animal holding and much more!
Chris held a small-ish tarantula, but I wasn't
The day before we visited Longleat, I've never been to a safari park before, and Longleat was great as there were many other attractions, Jungle Kingdom, The Hedge Maze (which we did in record time!), a boat ride around the lake, a train ride around the park, the bat cave, the manor house, plenty of shops, hand feeding and animal holding and much more!
Chris held a small-ish tarantula, but I wasn't feeling brave enough!
We went on a boat ride around the park, and there were lots of noisy, hungry sealions. There was the option to feed them but I didn't fancy
getting fishy fingers! We saw ant eaters, a rather strange looking chicken, a very nosy rhino, Anne the elephant, giraffes, zebras, tigers (amazing!), lions, wolves, a silverback gorilla (who lived on an island alone in the middle of the lake - he did have Sky+ and a HD tv to keep him company though!)
Perhaps one of the most interesting parts of the trip was the monkey enclosure. There are lots of warnings around the monkey enclosure, advising the drivers that the small monkeys will hitch a ride and will try to tear anything loose off your car! Well they did! One monkey hitched a ride on the top of a bus, and one riding on our car pulled the rear windscreen wash dispenser off Chris' car!
It was raining on and off that day, but it didn't put us off braving the maze, which was full of fairly big puddles but I managed to guide us into the centre, where we took a photo and then the quick exit. A word of warning though, don't eat the food there, at least not from the fast food outlets, very disappointing!
It was a great weekend. And after a long drive back, we were exhausted! Having never been to a safari park though I really enjoyed myself and loved being so close to wild animals. Especially the tigers, they were so regal and majestic.
On an unrelated note, I went power kite-flying a couple of days ago, and hopefully will be learning to kite-board soon. Watch this space!
