My boredom is killing me again today. I have to go out again or else I would just sleep all day and be awake all night. It's not that I love my bed that much, I just don't have anything to do. So, I went out for a walk again this time and I remembered that there is another park near my place.
Off I go, then.
I have to walk by the entrance of the Provincial Capitol Lagoon. Just one turn to the right and a few steps more, I'll get there already.
Right here in this street in front of the Development Bank of the Philippines was always the starting line every time we have a Fun Run activity during high school every Foundation Day of the school. It's kinda nostalgic seeing this street as I remember how I woke up at 4 am and will go here early just to walk around the lagoon before the Fun Run starts at 5:30 am.
When I arrived at the entrance, the security guard meet me to point where should I inquire about the entrance fees. Before I could get there at their office, I saw that Gumamela Flower and I can't take my eyes off of it; then, opted to take a picture of it for a souveiner.
The entrance fees are Php 50 for kids and senior citizens, Php 50 for students, and Php 100 for adults. I'm a student, so it's a lower price for me. They also have Tourism Interns that serves as my tour guide around the park. They are friendly and accomodating. I enjoyed talking with them since the beginning of the tour.
See that little green bird? That's the Blue Naped Parrot. My tour guide says that they are monogamous. They only have one partner throughout their life. If one of them dies, the other one will be depressed and will not find another partner until it dies. I'm amazed with the loyalty of this parrot. They are much better than some unfaithful humans.
They are the Visayan Warty Pigs. They are already endangared but they are treated as pests in some parts of the countryside since they destroys plants and crops. If the parrot is loyal, then they are not. The male one there has many wives, maybe three of them there.
They are the Monitor Lizards. They are enjoying their bath when I passed by them. Probably, they are thinking why is this lady disturbing our bath just by how they are looking at me. The last one is most shy of them all. They said, he doesn't usually come out when there are visitors but I got a perfect timing going there that he is bathing.
They are the Philippine Eagle Owls. They are branded as the Marites (a name that is usually intended for gossipers) of the park. According to my tour guides, they would stare at every visitor as if they are eavesdropping. They would never look away until the visitor is gone. And yeah, they surely turned their gazes to me as I passed by them. It's good, though. At least, I can take a good picture of them.
Those two are the Leopard Cats. They are shy like me, they don't want to be taken pictures. They hide as they saw me. Just imagine a leopard that is a size of a cat, and meow like a mixed sounds of a tiger and cat.
This is Azul, the Philippine Sailfin Lizard. He is four years old and well-behaved. He likes to be pet by the visitors and he doesn't complain about it. I feel like adopting him as my pet but it's prohibited since they are endangered.
This is Azul's mother. She likes to stay in her cage and quite opposite of Azul. She doesn't like people that much and just rarely comes out to meet the visitors.
They are the Whistling Ducks. As their name states, they really whistle. Have you heard how the Maya Bird chirps and sings? Their sounds are somehow alike but the whistling ducks are 5 times louder, in my opinion.
They are the Phillippine Spotted Deers. Just like the Warty Pigs, they are also polygamous, the unfaithfull ones. That one deer is just near me and he turned away when I was taking pictures, and I thought that he hated me but he came back anyway.
This one is the Negros Bleeding Heart Pigeon. They call it the bleeding heart since there is a spot of red feathers in its breast. This pigeon doesn't like visitors, too. I can't find a perfect timing to capture a nice picture of her with her bledding heart.
There are a lot more of species of birds there. They even have monkeys but there cage is a little far from the walking path, so I can't take a clearer picture of them. The snakes are on the process of peeling off their skins, so they can't entertain visitors, too. I was a bit disappointed at first that they don't like visitors that much but after hearing that some of them are rescued animals, I have to understand it.
The forest park also cultivate plants but I'm more into animals, so I only focused with them during the whole tour. There is a part of the park that is under maintainance. They said that it is the cage of the peacock and they are renovating it. Now, I have a reason to come back there next time. I wanna see one, since I never have seen a peacock in real life before.
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