The front boat has passed one of the barless orang enclosures. The second one is passing the wired orang enclosure. Note part of the Monsoon House with ventilators open at the back. Chester, 10th July 2015.
Yes indeed. At the moment just the warty pigs, photos are in the Gallery. See the Islands thread for a list of the other enclosures that the boat passes.
I will post an even better photo of the turtle waterfall soon
I expect there will be webbing straps hanging from the roof, with hammocks, as in RotRA. I do hope that they will also continue the practice of scatter-feeding on the wire roof, like Howletts do with gorillas. I think that orangs benefit greatly from being fed in this way.
It never rains on the Wirral because it is the rain shadow of Snowdonia
I have heard a story that there were originally canopies on the boats, but they made these frail craft so unstable that they had to be removed.
There are several pics of the boats with canopies on some of the earlier publicity shots. I think it offers a better view without them but I'd rather have my view obscured than a wet bum! I assume they will wipe down any wet boats in between visitors disembarking and getting on. You would think the makers of this ride would have anticipated any issues before hand though??
Yes, you would. But anticipation is not the same as solution. I get the impression that the complexity of the Islands project has caused so many interconnected problems that some of them have not been solved completely yet.
I haven't seen them in there yet, but I will certainly try to do so when I can. The viewing window is very well positioned for photography because it is at a nice height and angle with respect to the sun for most of the day
Great... I only saw Orangs outside in the enclosure nearest the Macaques- nothing in the other two except someone mowing grass in the other open one with the Oak tree.
