Drusillas Wildlife Park

As we didn't get the keys to our holiday house until 3pm we wanted to make the most if our first day, so instead of driving down the A3 from London to Portsmouth we decided to go due south towards Brighton and the drive along the post to our hol house in Pagham. On the way we went to Drusillas, a wonderful small zoo perfect for a day out with a toddler.

 

The inhabitants were small, monkeys, meerkats, penguins, farm animals etc. And an added bonus for my little train fan, they have a Thomas train with Annie and Clarabel carriages giving rides around the site. The only problem was that you had to walk through the whole zoo before you could go on Thomas, and this was very hard for a 3 year old who could see his favourite train but not understand why we couldn't go on it immediately. If we go again we will take the shortcut at the start which takes you to the picnic area at the end where the Tidmouth Halt station was and then see the animals.

 

When I asked Charlie what his favourite part was afterwards he didn't say the Thomas ride, his best thing was milking a cow! Not a real one but a life-sized model which squirted water from it's tests. C and Daddy had a go and my little bit loved it.

 

Other highlights were seeing baby Fenwick fox, looking through a giraffe periscope and feeding time at the penguins. We popped bubbles in the picnic area and had lots of fun on a rickety bridge in the adventure playground. In the Thomas gift shop at the end Daddy bought C a Spencer train for his collection. C was disappointed at first as he couldn't choose but as soon as little cousin M started showing an interest jealousy kicked in and Spencer is now a firm favourite!

 

 

Holiday snapshot

We've just got back from a week at the seaside, on the south coast in Pagham. Nana and Grandad booked the cottage and Uncle A and Cousin M came to stay for the first weekend. We all had so much fun, C loved spending time with his little cousin and absolutely adored our days on the beach.

The weather was beautiful, hot sunshine for most of the time, with a monster rainy day half way through, thunder, lightning the works!

I'm still going through the photos but here's a few of my favourites:

 

1 - We walked past these hydrangeas on our daily 2 min walk to the beach

2 -  Seagulls on Bognor seafront

3 - Trying on Mama's shades

4 - Thomas train at Drusilla's Wildlife Park

5 - Kicking the waves with Daddy

6 - Sunset on our beach at Pagham

7 - Mama and C-bear

8 - Holiday house

9 & 10 - Paddling pool fun 

Beach holiday fun

I've been having lots of fun over the past month creating some new boards on my Pinterest account and thought it would be nice to share them here.

This board is inspired by all things seaside, just looking at these pins makes me think of sunny days with wind swept, salty hair and sand between the toes. See for yourself - Beach Holiday Fun.