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Originally Posted by Sliver
Are you old enough to remember when the zoo had a playground that was on water? Like you'd play around on this big fake boat or something, then you'd jump from block to block on these little ~two foot square islands dotted all over the water. If you missed a landing, you were in the pond soaking wet. I remember my cousin falling in once. What a hilarious way to make a playground. Would have been around 1981 it was like that.
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I feel like I remember the boat, but that the pond around it was empty. Wasn’t it part of the “kid’s zoo”? About where the cafeteria is now, across from the greenhouse. This big old wooden structure with a slide, some petting zoo animals, and a display of the contents of an animal’s stomach. The animal had died as a result of ingesting kilos of items tossed into its enclosure. I can’t remember the specific animal (maybe a seal or sea-lion?) but it had eaten pounds of coins and balloons and all kinds of crap. The message was “don’t throw things in the enclosures.”
The boat I remember looked like it once had some exhibits you could see through little portholes, but in my memory they were either empty or blocked, there was nothing in them. As a young kid in the mid-to-late 80s it was kinda creepy.