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Above tracker showing our progress round the zoo: below gps of the sites of the photographs.

We met Matthew only 5 mins late after standing around at the station for half an hour awaiting a train to Kentish Town - trouble with signaling...

Woolly necked crane

Nandina domestica

Mother and cub

Golden frog

What a handsome beast!

Tiger effigy

From behind

Komodo Dragon

There were 3 similarly sized female Galapagos tortoises in a pen, but the oldest one, a male born in the same year as I was, wasn't there - very disappointing...

We went into the Reptile House for some warmth. It was dark and the temperature of the lights was variable so there were some odd colours in the images and not much depth of field.

Red tailed snake actually it was a dirty pink

Gidgee Skink he is not wounded, he has pink knees

Frog soap

Gidgee Skink

Rhinoceros viper

Puff Adder

Emerald Tree Boa

Monitor lizard

We saw these terrapins fed with crickets

Utilla spiny tailed iguana

Vietnamese long-nosed snake

Collared tree lizard

Lau banded iguana

Feae's flying frog

Green tree monitor

Caiman Lizard

Crocodile

Could it be a grizzly bear?

Axolotl

Axolotls

Blue frogs

Shadows by the gorilla enclosure

The Broad Walk

Polar bear

I didn't get a picture, but PJ took a backlit shot of a White-naped Mangabey opposite the gorillas.

This is a picture from the Zoo's collection

The pelicans were excited

Waiting for something

Heron

Flamingoes

Asian lion

Guajarati office

Goddess with a lion

Wall painting

A very noisy parrot

We had a lot of trouble with mesh and smeary glass

On 23.12.17 there was a fire at London Zoo and an aardvard 'Misha' died and four meercat brothers may also have died. Some keepers were affected by smoke