Caroleen’s Treasures

Last October 1 was Auntie Carmen’s (my sister Crislyn’s MIL) 57th birthday. We happen to be there again like the past 5 years or six maybe. The plan is to meet with Auntie Carmen and Uncle Tony for dinner at a buffet restaurant near the Mall so we (Donald, Ella, Crislyn and BIL) decided to kill the time during the day by going to the Crocodile Farm. We have been there before when Ella had their excursion trip two years ago. That time we just borrowed a camera from Donald’s cousin and I presume they have deleted the photos before we could upload it. So I asked my sister if she wanted to go there and she and BIL agreed since they have their SLR and they could very well use it there.

An hour before noon they left the house to check my sister’s gown for the wedding of her SIL. Then me and Donald with Ella in tow met them at Blue Carabao for lunch. After a satifying meal (they serve good but cheap foods there) we hailed a taxi to Crocodile Park.

When we arived there, we went inside the park after Donald and BIL paid the entrance fee. Aside from hundreds of crocs, you could see different kinds of animals in captivity. The first thing we noticed is the talking myna. At first I thought it was the parrorts who are jabbering endlessly, but when I began talking to the parrot, the myna was the one who talks back. He calls us “pangit” (ugly) and I was saying, “Hey, we paid P100 just to be called ugly????”. Then as if he understood, he calls us “Gwapa” (beautiful) afterwards. Silly bird!

 I still have battery for our camera and was able to take some photos. I really hate it when battery die because we still do not have a spare. So I usually make sure it was fully charged before an important event such as this. But again, everytime we are with my sister I get so relaxed thinking they have their wonder camera with spare battery. So I’d like to show you some shots from our own camera before it died.

Ella was ecstatic to see the animals…alive and moving. Not in movies or books.

She asked Donald to carry her so she could see the parrots in their own bird houses.

A pose with the croc….just a replica. I would not dare get near a real one this huge!!!!

Oh Julie, I forgot we also have elephant here.

HELP!!!!!!!

Superman to the rescue.

Wonder where are the real, living, biting, kicking animals are? here they are….(the following photos were taken using my sister and BIL’s camera).

The baby crocs….we were able to hold it because its mouth was ducktaped.

Their baby croc. Looks like Mom or Dad?

These are the real crocs during feeding time.

And these are the real monkeys waiting to be fed.

There are still plenty of animals there but I can’t post all their photos here. If only the caretakers would let all of them get out of their cages and have a group picture with us then it would be great.

We are starving after moments with the animals so we went to have a heavy merienda on their resto overlooking the Davao River. The plan was to leave at 5pm but before we could leave, the caretakers fed the hungry crocs and we stayed. We were fortunate also because they conducted a show where a man danced on the rope above the crocs pond!!! Yaiks! Ella also won admission tickets during the Question and Answer portion. Of course I wanted her to win so I grabbed her hand and ran upstairs when the second question was asked. A real stage mother. :lol: 

I gave the tickets to my sister and BIL since we could not use it again before the expiration date. When the show ended, they let people hold the animals and I am glad Ella was not terrified of them.

This snake is very huge and heavy!

Like Mother, like daughter. I am so proud!

Holding the dear iguana. Ella asked me to hold the body and she will do the tail.

And this is the white-breasted eagle which is the only animal there that Daddy managed to hold. (sorry partz!)

One last snap before we left the place. Such a very wonderful experience! I am finally decided that I am not buying DLSR. I would stick to our Sony W80 because I would end up like my sister and BIL who do not have faces on the pictures because they are the ones holding the cam. Oh at least we helped them be their subject.

We were just in time for the dinner and I am happy that some realtives of Auntie Carmen were also there. At least they have company except us, the same faces every year. Cheche was not able to join us to the crocodile park but was able to join us at dinner. My sister and BIL bought a cake from Red Ribbon and Auntie blowed her candle at home. It was a very nice day indeed!