A trip to the butterfly and wildlife park

Yesterday 4 of us took a trip to the butterfly and wildlife park at Long Sutton! It was a really nice day, the rain held off the whole time we were there. There was abit of rain as we were driving to and from the park but not while we were there- yay!
They have quite a variety of different animals. We started off looking at the outside animals, incase it did start to rain so we didnt miss out them. These included eagles, owls, goats, geese, racoons, many different types of birds, a peacock, curly coated pigs! (they looked like a cross between sheep and pigs), llamas, shetland pony, sheep and falcons.


It was very very humid in the butterfly house! We managed 30minute bursts in there before it got too much and we had to go back outside again to get some cool fresh air. I think between the 3 of us with cameras we managed to get some good pics of most of the different pretty butterflies!


This is one of the birds in the walk-through aviary. That was good to walk through as the birds were flying freely within it and some were sitting on the path and everything! There was a bird-spotting guide that you could take at the entrance to try and identify all the different varieties that you could see flying around. Some of the birds just really werent bothered and wouldnt move out the way when you were walking near them, so had to be careful we didnt step on any!!!
The photo below is me in the butterfly house!


On the way back, we also made a slight detour and randomly stopped at Moulton Mill, which is apparently the largest mill in Britain. We saw a sign for it and thought why not!!! We had finished at the Park at about 2pm, after getting there for when it opened at 10, so still had plenty of time to go and visit the mill. The tour takes about 1hour and we got there at about 2.45, and it closed at 4! So maybe we didnt have quite as much time as we thought, but luckily there was a tour guide available who could take us round when we arrived. We had just missed the last tour group by about 5minutes!!! So if he had been the only tour guide we wouldn't of been able to go round. It was a good tour and also had a lift installed to take disabled people upto the first floor of the mill, which they had converted to make it wheelchair friendly. It had tv screens so that they could then stay on the first floor, but still see the rest of the tour via tv screen while those were able continued upto the 7th floor!! It is the only mill in britain that also offers that kind of service, and also had some exhbits for people to have a go on, like a mini grinding stone that you can operate by hand, like the ones that actual grind the grain into meal in the mill. Definitely a good little diversion to of made!