The Culley Family Blog: The Culley's Visit The London Zoo

Sunday, May 6

The Culley's Visit The London Zoo

On Saturday, May 5th we journeyed down to London to visit the London Zoo. Our first stop was at McDonalds, about 10 minutes from the Epping Tube station to meet The Cook's (Henry, Amanda, Cole and Gaige) and a co-worker of Henry's, Tony, Angela and their three daughters. Once we arrived at McDonald's we left for the tube station. In order to get to the London Zoo you have to take an hour tube ride and then it's about a 10 minute walk from the Camden Town tube station to the entrance of the London Zoo. It was supposed to be around 70 degrees the whole day but it didn't seem to get above 60 degrees until we were on the tube ride home, which was okay I guess since we didn't want to get too sunburnt.

Here is a little history on the London Zoo from Wikipedia. The London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo. It was opened in London in 1828, and was originally intended to be used as a collection for scientific study. It was eventually made open to the public in 1847. Today it houses a collection of more than 651 different species of animals. As well as being the first scientific zoo, ZSL London Zoo also opened the first Reptile house (1849), first public Aquarium (1853), first insect house (1881) and the first children's zoo (1938).

We arrived at about 10 AM and stayed until about 3:30 PM and got to see pretty much everything. Because of the weather a lot of the animals were in their inside living quarters and not wandering outside. Overall I thought it was a decent zoo and it was fun to get away from Ely for the day. I was able to take a few pictures, so enjoy:

Cole (facing window), Jordan and Calvin on the tube.