My dear friend Kristy and her husband Matt were in town visiting Kristy's family and so we had planned to get together. I should have known we'd be in for a treat. Kristy had heard a few intriguing things about the Virginia Safari Park, located about two hours away from Richmond near Lexington. Her friend had gone and apparently had some interesting pictures and even more interesting stories from her own excursion to the park. Of course, we had to see it for ourselves.
WOW.
The only reason we know PETA isn't after the masterminds behind this place is because Kristy asked them outright about it. I'm convinced they are good liars. This is the craziest place. It is essentially a hands on zoo. You drive around in your car through these meadows and woodlands which serve as habitat to these wild animals. The wild animals you typically see locked in cages or behind barbed wire fences are roaming free, and come up to your car. You buy buckets of feed and literally feed these WILD animals through your car windows. Seriously, I cannot do it any justice, I don't even know how to put it in words. It is unbelievable. Lord only knows why this place wasn't shut down long ago due to lawsuits by the dozen. In fact, this is its tenth year in business.
So anyway, these animals (did I mention they are wild?) come up to your car--well actually, they shove their heads INTO your car--to eat whatever food you may give them. It's so weird how they are trained to just go up to the window, and if you're out of food or your window is closed they continue on to each window until they get what they're after. There are hardly any official Safari rangers in sight, but apparently if you have any mishaps you can beep your horn and they'll come save you. Luckily, we ran into no real trouble, because Jeremiah beeped on several occasions out of sheer desperation to get the huge beasts out of our way, but never once did a ranger come to our rescue.
Thankfully, my car was not damaged nor were any of our limbs torn off by hungry animals. We did however manage to get plenty of food and dirt all up inside the car and had to quickly find the nearest car wash to vacuum and wash.
Matt, Kristy, and Jeremiah all had an exciting time feeding the animals as I watched in fright with my window up. Hilarious!
Enjoy a bit of our adventure...
Here is our friend the bull elk.
The flies covering some of these things were revolting. This was only a minor case. Check out the food stuck in the window crevice that they crazy ostrich kept pecking at.
Here is some kind of freaky cattle.
Bambi and friends.
1 comment:
omg this is unbelievable haha
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