Hershey, Pennsylvania Part I

Anais won a trip on the radio to Hershey, PA.  Not to Hershey Park, but to the Hershey Lodge and the Hershey Gardens.  We went last weekend and also went to their zoo while we were there.  

In these photos, I tried to capture what you won't typically see if you go to the Hershey area as we spent quite a bit of time driving outside the tourist part of town to see the 'hidden' parts of the Pennsylvania countryside.  

As always, if you click on a photo, it will bring up a different interface where the pics will be much larger and a little bit easier to navigate.  Enjoy and don't forget, all of the old blogs are archived to the right.

This is where we DIDN'T go.  Looks nice, but it was great to not have to deal with all the screaming people at an amusement park! 

This guy was all chill in his log at the Hershey Zoo while the young otter was going crazy playing all over the place! 

We thought this was a baby owl but it's actually full grown.  I know it's hard to get a  good reference in this pic, but he was about six inches tall.

This Grey Wolf was just digging in a hole in the ground like a dog!

I spent a bit more time on B&W's on this trip.  I took several shots in both color and B&W, then converted the color shots later to compare.  They looked exactly the same as the original B&W so I think all of my pics will start out in color from now on, that way I will always have the option of going back to color later if I do end up converting them.

This is Lancaster, PA. 

Lancaster.

I broke the Hershey trip into three parts to keep them short.  There will be two more to follow from the Hershey Gardens, including one set of nothing but butterfly's.