The Living Desert Palm Desert 2014

Last night I decided to try my laptop and see if I could get by the problem of putting in pictures that I am encountering on my desktop and low and behold it worked. So I spent an hour and completed the Living Desert and then I promptly deleted the whole thing. So here goes AGAIN! On my travels this year someone suggested I go to the Living Desert so I took their advice and so glad I did. This is just the most lovely intimate little zoo I have ever been to. When one enters the grounds the first thing to draw your interest is this wonderful garden train set up. My friends in Vegas would love it.

 

 

From here I wandered over to the African exhibit and the children's petting zoo, with goats and sheep and these wonderful Anjouti cattle from Mexico much like a Long horn from Texas. I don't know how they hold up their heads.

They had a couple of giraffes and zebras and elands

 

 

You could even take a camel ride or go on a Merry-Go-Round

 

 

Kind of reminds me of the story about if you find yourself doing about 50 miles an hour and you are riding a zebra and a lion is chasing you but does not appear to be gaining and there is an elephant keeping pace beside you what should you do? Get your drunken ass off the Merry-Go-Round and go home. This little zoo also puts on a bit of a show to introduce you to some of its diverse wildlife. First a beautiful golden eagle swoops out of the air and alights and devours a mouse. Then they bring out some of the other animals including a porcupine.

 

 

There was a lot of Flora and Fauna from many various regions. You all know how much I like trees and flowers so here goes.

Firecracker plant

 

 

 

 

 

I really liked this picture of the wolves. I thought it looked like a Robert Bateman painting.

I also went in the bird enclosure and saw this egret and a Kookaburra.

 

I almost forgot my favorite picture of the 2 buzzards that reminded me of the 2 sitting on a branch watching a guy painfully crawl across the desert and one turns to the other and says Patience my ass, let's kill something. Or that other old adage God grant me patience but Hurry.

And last but not least I paid $2.00 for a popsicle stick with bird seed glued to the end. I entered a cage with birds of the Australian Outback. Once you held the stick out you were deluged with parakeets, cockatiels and parrots. It was so fun.

 

I highly recommend this quaint little zoo. It is west on Highway 74 out of Palm Desert. And with that I will end this episode and give you Idylwilde soon and hopefully not delete it again.