There was a great variety of animals at Harmony Safari Park. For that reason alone, the task of throwing corn should be restricted to adults and older children. In the case of the camel, that is very dangerous. They explain that you need to roll up your window quickly because the animals are known to put their heads in the vehicle. Before entering the park, staff provided a warning and list of rules. All the animals mull around your vehicle waiting for you to toss out some corn. I can image how much more fun it would have been if we had more windows that could distribute food.Īlthough the animals are not tame, they certainly are used to being fed by random vehicles driving through their home. Since we were in a mini-van, there were only two of us with windows that opened enough to launch food. There was a fee for all of us, but with five paid admissions, we got a free bucket of corn. When we pulled up to pay our fee, we could see the animals congregating on the other side of the fence. So we headed off to the safari zoo and were amazed at what was in store for us. Being overly concerned about the welfare of my car, I emailed Hillary and was delighted when she emailed back with nothing but positive things to say. By total coincidence, a blogger friend had been to Harmony Park Safari just the day before. (Surprisingly, as I repost this in 2016, they STILL don’t have a website.) I had a few hits through travel sites but no real meat that told what exactly the place was. She just said that she had driven by it and thought it might be something the girls might enjoy.Īfter she left, I headed to the computer to Google “Harmony Park Safari” and was surprised to find that they don’t have a website. It didn’t really say much and Pie Making Neighbor had never been there. It said “Harmony Park Safari” with an address phone number and short description. One awesome blueberry cheesecake/coffeecake and two pies.Īnyway, after setting down the pie, Pie Making Neighbor immediately pulled out the phone book and pointed to a listing in that community section of the Huntsville, Alabama phone book. Not the buffet and other dinners out, not the movie popcorn, not even the gummies that BIL brought over. Incidentally, it was one of three desserts she delivered during our short visit and I personally blame her for the 5 pounds I gained while on vacation. MIL’s neighbor stopped by one day to deliver a pie. You know how phonebooks have those “community” pages up front with maps and golf courses and points of interest? Do you ever look at it? Me either. We spent a lot of time swimming and most of the time just relaxing, but the one very noteworthy thing we did was to visit a safari zoo. (And having an on-site baby sitter so we could go to dinner and a movie for our anniversary was a bonus.) The trip wasn’t intended to be anything other than a chance for the girls to see their grandma. This article originally appeared Augon .Īs I mentioned in my prior post about fishing, we recently spent some time visiting my MIL in Alabama. Feel free to correct me on other animals I mislabeled. Needless to say, this re-dedication of that old post has those errors corrected. As I took a trip down memory lane reading an old post about Harmony Safari Park Zoo in Huntsville, Alabama, I realized my error. During a trip a few years ago to a natural history museum, I discovered that I was one of many people incorrectly identifying bison as buffalo. Or maybe some of what I learned in my younger days and forgot is finally sinking in and sticking. As the kids have gotten older and we’ve traveled more, taken educational tours, visited more museums and taken more adventures, I’ve certainly learned a lot. There’s an saying that you’re never too old to learn something.
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