Lions and Tigers and....Llamas???

This is sort of a cheat since these shots didn't come from today, but they're recent. The other day Heather wanted to go shopping...ALONE....so she dropped me and the boys off at the Waccatee Zoo in Socastee. It's a small little zoo that is pretty cruddy in my opinion (I tell Heather that it's exactly what you would expect from a group of rednecks that had some extra 2x4s, and chicken wire and decided to start a zoo), but the boys like it. The end result of the day was that Heather had some great alone time and we boys got to hang out together.

Here is a cattle egret. There were thousands of these things nesting around a little cypress pond.

This is the Southern Copperhead. How do you tell it's a Southern Copperhead? Because it hisses with a drawl. There are about a dozen fish tanks filled with snakes like this as you walk in the front door. Our neighbor, Barbara, won't go there for that very reason.

If there was one peacock, there were a thousand. I wanted to get a good closeup of one of the "eyes" but the blasted things wouldn't hold still long enough. I remember Mama Mixson used to have peacocks around her house. I recall them being mean, but that was a long time ago.

I like this picture for the black and white patterns and that doleful black eye in the middle of it all.

I took this one for the boys because of their favorite video. When you get a minute, go to www.youtube.com and search for "The Llama Song". Charlie and Luke watch this for hours. It's pretty funny about the first two times, then it's just annoying. About two seconds after snapping this picture, Charlie found out that llama's have a taste for hair. Luke thought that was even funnier than the video. Charlie??....not so much.