We stopped off at the Colorado Gators Reptile Park on the way north. It is an old tilapia growing facility that now mostly houses reptiles and other exotic animals. The alligators were brought in back in the 80s to eat the leftover tilapia guts.
It really is an integrated ecosystem in the desert.
An interesting collection of signs out in front of the entrance.
This place is not responsible for eaten children!
Heather holding a corn snake!
Petting a tortoise!
A little lizard of some sort. What a cutie!
Heather being brave with a three or four foot long alligator. Hew was really polite and let us pet him!
Folks wrestling alligators to do medical checks.
A gator swimming around with a bunch of tilapia.
Gators relaxing out of the water.
Time to pull another one in to have a medical check.
Gator wrastling!
Alligators can be popcicles and still come back to life.
In the new greenhouse. This is where the tilapia poop water gets cycled through hydroponics facilities to be cleaned.
A tank full of tilapia.
I imagine this is how a post-apocalyptic food source would look.
A rescued cockatoo or parrot now lives in the greenhouse.
This could be straight out of Mad Max.
A BIG gator in his own pen.
Lots of gators laying around.
Pea green soup.
Emus!
Albino alligators.
An evil caiman.
Big fellow who used to star in movies.
Emu eating. What an odd place!