Saving the Species Tours

[shelby72]

I think that is what it is called. Are they worth it? My 16 yr old Daughter is really excited about this (she loves penquins) but I'm hoping its not one of those things where she gets to stand in a line, pet the penquin for a second and that's it. I mean as a teenager she is hard enough to impress *laugh* so I'd like to have as few "lame Mom moments" as possible. Has anyone done this?

 

[DTop]

Well firstly, just a small thing but it's called Saving A Species (AKA SAS). Secondly, there are no penguins involved in it. It is the tour that lets you go behind the scenes to see the animals in the process of rescue and rehabilitation in order to be released back into the wild. There are Manatees and Sea turtles there. They also let you go into an aviary that has tropical birds you can feed (they land on you) and there's some sort of small deer there as well. It all takes about an hour.
If you want to pet a penguin, you need to go on the Polar Expedition Tour. It's another of the three 1 hour tours. Or you could do both
BTW, the other tour is called the Predators tour and you'd get to pet a small shark.

 

[Nellas Elensar]

better yet, on the Predators tour, you get to pet 2 small sharks. At least there's two sharks in the tank. You can pet one or the other or both. docile creatures these sharks are.

Nellas Elensar