Zoo Tales

 Saturday’s weather was a complete let down. The heat and sunshine that the weather folks had lead us to believe we were getting never materialised. I don’t know if it’s just me but you can check 3 different sources, get 3 different weather outlooks and none of them will be correct. That’s what happened Saturday when, instead of sunshine and a gentle breeze, it was grey, with a chilly wind. 

Unsure how to spend our day, we opted for a trip to Filey zoo. We hadn’t visited before, but I’d passed the sign on the way home from the Steampunk festival a few weeks back.

The zoo itself is very quaint. It’s close to Scarborough and has plenty of parking, and isn’t too pricey either. We were there by mid-afternoon.

There’s a mix of small animals. Farmyard birds, including a massive turkey. Meerkats, lemurs and little Miss’ personal favourite, an Asian Leopard Cat.

There were donkeys and wallabies and a rather brazen looking Alpaca. You can buy a bag of feed with your ticket, we did and it was lovely feeding the animals, but especially the donkey who took the feed so gently.

It remained breezy all day, so we took a break in the cafe, enjoying some sandwiches and a hot cup of coffee before making our way back outside for a wander around the gardens. It’s a small zoo, probably only an hour or so to walk around and see everything, have a brew and visit the play park, but even so it was pleasant.

Afterwards we drove towards Bridlington, which always seems further than expected. We wandered around but it was late afternoon and so, there wasn’t an abundance of things to see. We decided to grab some dinner in a fish and chip restaurant, one we’d been to before and thought was a safe bet. It most definitely wasn’t and we walked out mostly leaving the food we’d bought, hard chips and rubbery frozen fish fingers don’t really do it for us. We set off home, and while the food had been disappointing, the day itself was lovely. We vowed to take a pack up more often on our day trips! 

Sunday morning I had to nip to the locker to pick up my latest Vinted purchase. A delightfully cheap point and shoot film camera. I remember Mum taking our holiday snaps on cameras like this one in the late 80s and early 90s. It was very cheap and everything appears to be working. I’ve not run a reel of film through it yet but I’m really excited to.

With a collection of 5, invariably old cameras now, I wonder if I have a bit of a problem. I just love the imperfection and realism of film and older digital cameras that aren’t 75 megapixels with built in filters. Everything isn’t rendered perfectly and that’s what makes it so appealing. To me at least. 

The rest of the day was spent catching up on housework. A dull, but necessary endeavour. This week has been so far unremarkable. I really do hope for some brighter weather and energising adventures soon.