This past weekend, I went for a little trip to Longleat with my very good friend. I was driving through the safari park, which means it’s a little bit tricky to take pictures and steer at the same time, but I did get a couple of good shots. I did enjoy the house, despite my normal dislike of anywhere you are not allowed to take pictures. There is so much artwork on the walls, big curtains, enormous rugs, and lots to look at.

This is my last blog entry about the safari park trip, I promise. The thing is, as we were going around the park, we realised that there was one fundamental problem with the whole premise. Why are we driving? Our experience of the safari park was: turning off the main road to get to the ticket booths, queuing to buy the tickets, then driving excruciatingly slowly round the park. Thankfully, there were two lanes to allow some cars to stop and take pictures of the animals, whilst others could pass if they wanted to move on.

Here are some more of my favourite photos from our visit to the West Midlands Safari Park: As I alluded to in the previous post, the lions were quite popular, and the traffic backed up as we got towards the corner of the park where they were all resting. Considering how long it took to get near them, it’s only fair to come away with a great picture like that.

This past weekend, we visited the West Midland Safari Park. It hadn’t actually been part of the plan, but sometimes visiting animals you wouldn’t normally see is the only way to brighten up your day. There were the usual deer type animals, some buffalo, and plenty of zebras and things. It was the rhinos and elephants that we enjoyed seeing though. It was interesting that as we were going round, the cars piled up when we got to the lions.