Oatland Island Animal Park

Oatland Island Animal Park

Text Box: Oatland Island is one of the many little ‘island inlets’ you drive across on your way to Tybee Island. Located on the grounds of an old school is Oatland Island Animal Park. It is a wonderful park that has a nature trail you walk along for 1.75 miles, and along the way you discover some animals in large, natural enclosures. All this for 3$ a person!

Text Box: The kids search the river for dolphins which were spotted a few minutes before we arrived. Below, huge blue crabs munch on chicken wings, a favorite, and as kids come they get to see them eating! In the distance, fish jump right out of the water—perhaps the dolphin were near!

Along the way...

and

(Audrey’s favorite)

See

The

Joy

On her

Face?

Owls

And above is the coolest thing we found. An actual tortoise, not in a cage, just in a hole in the ground. She was MASSIVE! It was so neat when the kids discovered her.

Text Box: Did you know? The sex of the alligators is chosen by the temperature of the sand in which the eggs are laid? Screech owls are found all over the USA, and are very small, about the size of a mayo jar? Puma’s once roamed the entire east coast, but now are confined to a small area in Florida...and, as you guessed, endangered Prairie Bison also were overhunted, and now only 16,000 remain in the wild, in a little corner of the Northwest Unlike other canids, foxes can extend their claws for digging and retract them to keep them sharp Many people consider a panther to be large, and black, but that is actually a black leopard, and is not found in the US