Thrigby Hall was a place to visit suggested by Old Bob. It's near a village called Filby, just north-east of Great Yarmouth. "There's tigers" he told us....we had to go.
Thrigby Hall is a fun place to visit, but it's too small to call itself a zoo, and the house itself isn't grand enough to merit calling itself an attraction either. Their animals are very close to the public though, which makes a nice change.
The undoubted highlight is the tiger enclosure, which has aerial walkways allowing you to walk in and over the cats. When we were there they were sunning themselves on narrow ledges alongside the slightly daunting enclosed walkway.
It looked like they'd had a hard day already....
We couldn't resist taking a photo which turned the traditional zoo roles right around!
Thrigby Hall - fun, small enough to see everything, and with some lovely inhabitants. Quiet on the number of visitors too. I suspect the Mandarin Duck liked it that way.
The large reptiles hold n added menace, being so close. We were eyeball to eyeball with the chap above, through just one window. If the thing had lunged at us I am sure we would both have had little accidents. Or maybe big ones.
The ones outside were just as terrifying. Really unnerving. Plus, this guy can shape his mouth into an exact image of the Loch Ness Monster!
So, we enjoyed Thrigby Hall and would go again, despite it being slightly over-priced.
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