Cameron Zoo

This is a photo of a great horned owl at the Cameron Zoo in Waco, Texas. The ultraviolet lights were on at the time.

It’s a brilliant zoo. Definitely much more than was expected for Waco (no offense). Lions, tigers, elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, orangutans, jaguars, an ocelot, crocodiles and three Galápagos giant tortoises — it’s pretty awesome. They’ve got a 50,000 gallon saltwater reef aquarium featuring fish native to the Flower Garden Reef in the Gulf of Mexico.

Absolutely worth the drive from Austin.

The above photo was taken June 2010 in Waco, Texas. See it here in my Flickr photostream.