Our brief vacation to Seattle continues with the Animals in Captivity Tour...
Thus we went to Woodland Park Zoo, we have been to the zoo on many an occasion as is our propensity while traveling (last year we went to the London Zoo which was very disappointing, the Honolulu Zoo was quite good for a city of that size)...
While Vancouver has the Vancouver Aquarium (very good, we recommend visits) and the Greater Vancouver Zoo (not so good) Woodland Park Zoo is very much worth the time spent with the animals...the animals homes are continually being improved with some very nice enclosures now on exhibit and there are some beautiful animals at the zoo...our favourites being the African Wild Dogs, Red Panda and of course the Red Ruffed Lemur...they also have a very good selection of birds...the zoo is orientated towards helping many endangered species and general conservation...
Sadly because of economics the zoo no longer has one of our favourite exhibits...the nocturnal animals has been shut down...still for a city of this size it is a good zoo...it beats Vancouver in the Animals in Captivity section of our survey...we spent over 3 hours at the zoo...time well spent...
We went for a nice walk along the beach at Golden Gardens Park and then to look in shops and for an Indian dinner in the Ballard area...Seattle has many interesting and unique neighbourhoods...the "Ballard Locks" are in the area and very worth the visit...
While Vancouver has a much superior downtown area Seattle is better in the neighbourhood’s category...Vancouver provides much better ocean access but Seattle is still pretty good...both cities has many excellent dining experiences...
Seattle appears to have many more smokers than Vancouver...both cities need to improve their public restrooms...Seattle is a clean city but it seems Vancouver is much cleaner...
As Canadians walking around an American city we fit in almost seamlessly...most take us for locals. Vancouver and Seattle are quite similar so this may seem to be no surprise...we did notice that it seems that many locals refuse to use umbrellas when it is raining while in Vancouver they are frequently an extension of our bodies...
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Glad you had good time LS, I love zoos very much. And our Toronto zoo is suffering also, I think we almost had a strike, that would have been bad for me, lol. Hey how are you doing, and how's CG? Anna :)
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