Wellington Zoo

Oh the Wellington Zoo! Definitely my favourite zoo now. It is a medium size, but due to it being a weekday and rainy and us showing up right at opening we had the chance to have tons of one on one conversations with the zookeepers, they even knew our names and advised us of good things to see within the zoo. We finally got to see kiwi birds, 2!, and they were active and running around and playing and I was just overjoyed. Florence was able to feed the farm animals. The otters were also very active, out of the water and rolling around together.

While we waited for the farm feeding Florence was trying to convince a little boy (17 months) to come play with her and eventually just kept hugging and kissing him.Read more