Cameron Park Zoo in Waco

This past weekend the hubby had a 3 day weekend with early realease on Friday for Earth Fest. It was a combination of environmental awareness and a celebration for the month of the military child. They had free food and drinks. Inflatable bouncy houses, games, and events for the kids. We all enjoyed ourselves very much eeven though we had an incident with parents letting their kids run around without supervision (it always happens to me) but thankfully the event volunteers were aware of the situation and took action.

Saturday the hubby woke me up and said that he wanted to go to the zoo. I was shocked. He never tells me he wants to do something. So I got up and did all the preparations. This time I did thorough research since what happened with the Austin "zoo." We do get a military discount. The Cameron Park Zoo is the most beautiful zoo I have seen. It has a few parks around it since it is adjacent to the Brazos River.  It was very big and clean. It was very easy to go through. If an exhibit was off the main the main trail it would take you in a circle back to where you started so you wouldn't have to back track. This was nice since a lot of times we are thinking. "Did we go this way yet?" The Lemurs have their own island on the lake. There are also lots of tables on the deck so you have a nice view. We saw EVERY animal. They were all out in the open. I'm thinking we were there around feeding time since the lions, and tigers were pacing by the zookeeper's door.  All the exhibits are well put together and nice and open so you are able to see the entire exhibit. They have a nice aquarium with lots of interesting fish. The had a "nocturnal animals" house that was kind of creepy. You open the door, it's pitch black and all you see is a manikin of a bee keeper. This house is only lit by dark lights, so takes a minute to adjust. The only bad thing I found about this place and not really bad but there is only one concession stand throughout the park. It seemed to be right in the middle of the park but I would still have to walk to/back to it. Then to top it off their credit machine wasn't working. Luckily there was a tiny gift shop next door that had bottled drinks and took credit card. We had a great time and plan on returning to the zoo and the many parks around it.

Waterfall at Lemur Island

My son and I at another waterfall in the zoo

One of the many statues. This one was so big and life like it was scary. Right across from the real one too

An interesting fish in the aquarium

This slide went right through the river otter exhibit. I could not pull my son away from it. The otter would swim around him and he would be fascinated

For more information please check out: Cameron Park Zoo