amazonia

The DC National Zoo is an amazing place. We always have fun there with Cameron and Jamie. And although it was a cold day on Sunday we decided to take a walk around the zoo and see which animals were venturing outside.

After a quick visit around the petting zoo we found Amazonia - an inside exhibit and very warm which was perfect for a cold Sunday morning. We headed inside and it was fantastic. Lots of stingrays and a couple of huge tanks of fish. Then there were frogs and snakes and more fish and finally lots of bugs.

This photo of the fish doesn't do them justice. They were enormous. I'll have to post the photo I took of Cameron standing beside the glass. Anyway, they are called arapaima and they were about 4 feet long.
This is a blue poison dart frog. They had a great collection of colourful frogs and Jamie loved watching them hop.After seeing the fish tanks from below you could walk up the stairs and see Amazonia from above. There were meant to be some other animals in the upstairs section but we couldn't see them - well hidden I think!

We also saw the grey seals being fed by their handlers and Cameron enjoyed pretending to be a seal for the rest of the morning.