Alamo is a town in Crockett
County, Tennessee. Alamo, located in the central part of West Tennessee,
is the county seat of Crockett County. |
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Below: Alamo may be a small
town, but yet it has two Water Towers/ |
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The
two RV Gypsies at
Tennessee Safari Park
618 Conley Road - Alamo, TN 38001
phone: '731.696.4426 for hours and info
June 3, 2022 |
There is a petting
zoo, a Giraffe feeding area (they sell carrot sticks for this), and
a Safari drive-through. |
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Admission to the park on this
date was $24 adults, $16 kids ages 2 - 12,. Feed cups were $3 each for
four cups for $10. Open every day except Christmas Eve, Christmas Day
and Thanksgiving. No on-line ticket sales. No dogs or outside animals
allowed in the park, anytime, anywhere. Gates close at 5 p.m. |
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 The
Tennessee Safari Park's mission is to create and provide educational
activities and environments for the community and abroad to bring appreciation
and conservational awareness for all living things. They aim to gain
long term sustainability for our world's rare and endangered flora and
fauna in their natural environment.
The Tennessee Safari Park is located on a century farm owned by the
Conley Family since 1858, called Hillcrest. The farm has produced numerous
types of crops and has always stayed entrepreneurial in the products
that were developed and sold on the farm. Claude H Conley I instilled
a strong interest in his son, Claude M Conley, at a very young age to
love and appreciate Hillcrest, the Conley Family and all of its animals.
They collected pheasants, peafowl and various types of deer. This was
a pivotal moment in the young mans life and he knew he wanted to see
animals from around the world saved and protected right here on the
family farm. The collection grew over the years with Bison in 1963,
forming the first privately owned Bison in the state of Tennessee. Damara
Zebras were added in 1980 and various rare and endangered antelope were
added throughout the 80's and 90's. In 2007, Claude Sr. and his two
sons, Claude H Conley II and Jon Wesley Conley, decided to create a
park to showcase these rare and endangered species and bring a top tourism
attraction to the West Tennessee rural farm. Today the safari park has
one of the largest collections of zoo animals in the United States. |
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Below: Lee Duquette bought
the food to feed the animals. Karen Duquette hated the experience because
the animals were sometimes slobbery. With her window open, some of the
animals stuck their heads further into the window than Karen liked.
So Karen left the feeding to Lee and just enjoyed taking pictures. Sometimes,
Lee just dropped the bucket out onto the ground because several animals
came at once and were much to aggressive. |
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A llama is a domesticated
South American animal. Llamas are social animals and live with others
as a herd. Their wool is soft and contains only a small amount of lanolin.
Llamas can learn simple tasks after a few repetitions. When using a
pack, they can carry about 25 to 30% of their body weight for 5–8 miles
The name llama was adopted by European settlers from native Peruvians.
These Llamas were skinny. |
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Below: Even with Karen Duquette's
window closed, animals pushed their faces against her window. Karen
was so glad her window was closed. Lee was jiggling his bucket out his
window to get the animals to go to his side of the car. |
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Below: Three
camels all tangled up together |
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The Camel below
looked like he was trying to talk to The Two RV Gypsies. |
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