Our bus took us to Loro Parque. Built in 1972, it is an interesting combination of an aviary, a zoo, an aquarium, and a botanical garden all rolled together into one.
Shortly after entering the park, we were greeted by the "King of the Villa Gorilla" (just ask him). He would hold a pose for a while then change to another intimidating pose.
The next interesting animal we saw was a white Bengal tiger named Prince who was donated to the park by an illusionist.
Then we went to a dolphin show where we enjoyed watching their antics.
After that, we went to see the Orca show. As we waited for the show to begin, a camera was scanning the audience and it would suddenly zoom in on someone and add a funny caption. We wound up being chosen just as I was trying to take a picture of the screen. I hesitated for a moment and the audience yelled out "Well kiss her!", so I snapped the picture and kissed Susan. The applause was fun.
Then the Orca show began with four of these large creatures jumping, splashing and doing the usual stuff.
We walked through a nice cactus garden on the way to get some lunch.
There were a large variety of birds both in cages and walking free around the park. This one was watching us have lunch (or maybe looking for his mate?).
The next interesting place we visited was the Penguinarium - the largest in the world with over 200 penguins living in a recreation of the Antarctic with real snow and ice in an air temperature of 0 degrees. A pretty cool place...
Our last stop of the day (other than the gift shop) was at the California Sea Lion show where 15 of them performed a variety of feats.
All in all, it was a most entertaining day. We returned to the ship and watched as the last land we would see for a while disappeared from view.
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