Last weekend, in keeping with our life goal to visit every drive-through animal park in America, we decided to head down to New Braunfels, which is near San Antonio and less than an hour from Austin, to visit the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch. I sort of kid about this being our life goal, but sort of not. There was a place near us when we lived in Missouri called the Wild Animal Safari, and I'm 100% sure it was not legal. But it was also the greatest place on Earth. You could drive through and the animals were always hungry enough to run up to your car and stick their heads in. You could also purchase raw chicken at the front desk to stick on the end of a pole and feed to tigers, who would often fight over it. Like I said, probably not legal.
Anyway, thus began our fascination with wild animal parks, and here we are. The Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch is much classier, larger, and probably more regulated than the Wild Animal Safari, which made for a fun day, but sadly not as many animal heads in the car. This was fine with Peter, who was mainly concerned with keeping any form of antlers away from the car, but Ali and I were trying to lure the animals as close as possible, naturally.
These deer totally DGAF that we were driving a few feet away holding some form of pellet food out to them.
Finally, some cow/deer hybrid thing made its way up to our car and Ali way overjoyed.
So I've lived in Texas my whole life, and I've still never been here before. I've seen the signs all over the place, but I'm pretty sure that my dad was probably worried about antlers scratching up the car as well, which is probably why we never went. I'm glad that y'all had a good time!
ReplyDeleteThis was the best day. Let's go back!
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