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Published: July 25th 2011
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We had a free day in Montreal before we needed to start the voyage west, so we decided to take both boys to Parc Safari since Marc had had such a good time there with Frederique. It turned out to be a great choice for a hot day. Parc Safari is actually about 45 minutes south of Montreal in the Richeleau valley area.
We started off by visiting the walk through animals before it got too hot (although it was already pretty roasting). In the lion and tiger area you actually get to walk through glass tunnels that go right through the animal enclosures. One of the female lions was right up on the tunnel as we went through so it was pretty neat to be looking up at her. They have 3 white lions from a game preserve in Africa. They are very rare and were cool to see. They aren’t actually white, but are much much lighter in color than the regular lions. The male had a pale golden mane instead of the normal darker brown one. Also through the walking area you walk over top the monkey enclosure on a boardwalk. The little monkeys were really cute
as they played along the river and in the grass, especially the babies.
There is a walk through deer area where you can feed the spotted deer. Marc loved this as they are quite a small deer and very keen to come up to be fed.
Next we hit the water park area. This was probably the most fun area for the boys and on a hot day it was a good mix with the animal parts. They played in the splash park areas first. This area is all new this year. They are doing lots of renovations and expansions. Then we did the river tube ride. They loved these and we ended up doing them twice. Marc especially like the water tunnel at the end because we said it was like tubing down through the sewer and that he should watch out for Roger (the crocodile on Penguins of Madagascar). They could have stayed much longer in the water park area, but we needed to do the drive through safari part before the end of the day too.
In the safari part you drive your own vehicle through a road through the “savanah” and you can
feed the animals along the way. We had borrowed Frederique's Honda Fit for the trip as our van was too full. It worked well as it was easy for the boys to move around the back to get close to the animals and the windows went all the way down, unlike the van. The boys really liked feeding the animals. We got to feed giraffes, camels, huge wooly cows, deer, ostriches, and many other animals. You aren’t supposed to feed the zebras because they bite, but the zebra don’t believe in this rule and are the first ones to approach the car. The ostrich were quite aggressive for the food and scared Marc a bit. The ostrich even bit Claude’s arm as he had it resting on the window ledge. The book said they have the brain the size of a walnut. I guess that would explain why he was determined to eat our door lock button! When we came across the camel, he was standing with his huge slobbery mouth hanging open showing green cud like residue all over his lips. The boys were not about to feed him! Claude was brave enough and actually when he ate, all
that slobbery part went inside and his lips were very soft and gentle. Not gross like we thought it would be.
It was a great fun day. That evening (our last in Quebec), we celebrated Claude’s and Frederique’s birthdays, as both would be after we left. We will miss Robert’s family and it appears they are already worried about missing the boys. The true start of our voyage starts tomorrow.
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