Sooo many animals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At the Neo Park and Tropical Dream Center in Okinawa
And another visit to the Churaumi Aquarium
This is another special post by Baby Bear!
Today we went to the Tropical Dream Center where they had many greenhouses, each containing a large variety of plants. They had a sausage tree (don’t eat the fruit), a cannonball tree, pitcher plants, venus flytraps, sundews, orchids, cattleya, water lilies, and more!
Some grew thousands of small fruits, some had fruits that were jade in color, and there was even a really hard-to-fruit tree/vine that they had managed to fruit for the first time in Japan! Papa Bear says that the Japanese people really liked it because the seeds were “individually packaged”, meaning that they each had a clear sheet around it that looked like plastic, while Mama Bear thought that the seeds were meant to fly, judging by the shape of the “wrappers”.
When we came out of the Tropical Dream Center, we went to the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium again. It's the Second time this week! It is soo fun! I am very happy!!!!! There was a whale shark, 2 BABY CUTTLEFISH, 3 GIANT PUFFERFISH, NUDIBRANCHS we had not seen before, Disco clams, garden eels, and a TINY BOXFISH, barely bigger than my thumb! I fell in love with it only a minute after i saw it, it was sooooooooooooo adorable!
Neo Park, Okinawa
The next day we went to Neo park in Okinawa.
(above) map of Neo Park
They had many fun animals. When we first got in, we saw A vending machine near the door. The machine sold large packages of feed for 200 yen, so We bought two and went through the doors to see the about 100 ibises, 10 spoonbills, five flamingos, and 2 beautiful birds with a crown, all of which you can feed with that same box of feed! We fed them all, of course. At our next stop, except for the gentle, soft kangaroo with a mouth like a bunny, and which I loved feeding, none of the other animals seemed to be feedable.
Afterward, we walked to the petting zoo, where you can feed and pet goats, dogs, capybaras, and surprisingly, tortoises! When we first walked into the capybara/tortoise area, there was only one adorable capybara that needed to be petted, as all the others were already over-petted. There were also two tortoises out, one in the water whom I didn't think was pettable, and one in the middle of the path. The rest of the animals were in places that had signs saying only staff (and animals) could go past. Eventually however, when Papa Bear was petting the capybara, and I was feeding it with the grass from outside, two other capybaras came out to be petted and fed. The tortoise not in the water also seemed to be happy being petted, as when I petted its neck for a while, it fell asleep. It all made me VERY happy!!!! Here is a few pictures:
