A visit to the Safari yields photo opportunities

Photo by Randy Moll A Nile hippo took a nap in the water at the Wild Wilderness Safari last week.
Photo by Randy Moll A Nile hippo took a nap in the water at the Wild Wilderness Safari last week.

GENTRY -- There aren't too many places where one can photograph such exotic animals as a Nile hippo and plains zebras from Africa and then water buffalo from Asia, kangaroos from Australia and wolf pups and cougar cubs from North America, all within a few minutes of each other. But a visit to Gentry's Wild Wilderness Safari provides just such opportunities to photograph a wide variety of exotic animals from both North America and all over the world.

The Safari currently offers visitors the opportunity to see a pair of cougar cubs, born last November, up close and personal. And there are three wolf pups, only about 3 months old, in the petting zoo, as well. Add to that all the other animals in the petting areas and in the drive-through portion of the animal park and a day there provides experiences one can find no where else.

And the drive-through portions of the animal park give visitors opportunity to see and photograph a wide variety of animals in large, open sections of the park -- a far better way to see and photograph animals than in the smaller enclosures found in many zoos.

Safari 4, the portion of the Safari over which high-voltage power lines were recently constructed, remains closed. But Leon Wilmoth, who helps manage the park, remains hopeful that the Safari will be awarded a fair price for the land which the Safari is no longer able to use because of the easement access and high voltage lines will make it possible for the Safari to replace the area lost to the park with other land for the animals there.

General News on 06/17/2015