I made a return trip to Fairchild Tropical Gardens today. It was in the mid 80's today with a feel like temperature of 92! I probably looked ridiculous, but I wore my new UV sun hat and my long sleeve sun protection "cooling" shirt. Jury is out on the cooling part, but I didn't get sunburned today. So today I decided to look for different things to photograph and I think I came up with a nice variety for you. Of course I spent lots of time with my lily ponds, sorry not sorry. I absolutely love to photograph them. I shot over 300 images today, but narrowed it down to about 39. Definitely visit the gallery, as below are just some of my favorites. 

Return to Fairchild Tropical Gardens Gallery

One of the first things I came upon was an Egyptian Goose. I was perfectly happy to be taking pictures of her and then 2 Goslings came out of the brush! I was lucky enough to run into them again later in the day. Here are a few favorites. 

I ran into my fair share of iguanas and lizards and also visited the Wings of the Tropics butterfly exhibit. With Covid protocols, it's just one way through the exhibit, so I photographed what I could. I was lucky enough to also find a female Zebra Finch with a beautiful background. Sadly, I overheard someone saying she is the only Finch left in the exhibit. I'm not really sure what happened to the others.

Now it wouldn't be a trip to Fairchild if I didn't take tons of photos of lily flowers, orchids and other flowers throughout the garden. I think you will agree it was a very colorful day.