MARWELL ZOO ZANY ZEBRA TRAIL
As soon as I opened my eyes, I thanked my lucky stars that the weather was the complete opposite to Saturday’s complete washout of the Romsey Show. We were going’ huntin’ zebra [imagine that in an Elmer Fudd voice]. The Marwell Zoo Zany Zebra Trail has been on in Southampton and the zoo since mid July and we still hadn’t gotten around to finding any. In 2013 we hunted down some very sparkly Go! Rhino statues, and now we were armed with an app and a map [just in case] to find some Zany Zebra – and get out of the house before we all got cabin fever.
The trail has a base camp in the Marlands shopping centre – Marwell Zoo Zany Zebra Trail HQ has activities to do, information and gifts to buy – and a strawberry zebra! There’s also a raffle to win a small blank zebra to take home and design yourself…and you can pick up some #ZanyZelfie ears which my boys are still complaining at me that I didn’t get for them because I was too busy talking to the lovely Marwell ladies there.
We started right there in the centre and worked our way around town to the Bargate, around East Street and all over on our Southampton safari. Jensen loved learning about parts of the city he never usually thinks about or sees on our normal shopping trips, and the boys all got so excited every time they spotted a new friend. It’s such a shame that more of the zebra couldn’t be outdoors due to pathetic vandalism of the statues, because there’s nothing better than running about, learning about the geography of your home city whilst having fun at the same time.
We met some friends on our way around the trail who pointed out their school’s zebra, who had lived in their living room whilst getting ready to be taken to the trail! The school designed zebra were the best, we loved them.
The boys’ favourite zebra by far was Zany Zebra – the Marwell Zoo Zany Zebra Trail app avatar. Jensen took about twenty photos of himself with this one!
If you’re following the trail and wondering where some of the Zany Zebra are, check the website to see if they’ve been relocated [due to damage]. The trail is still on until September 25th.
If you’re closer to Marwell Zoo than Southampton – or you want to visit both locations, you can take a #GiantZelfie with Gulliver the HUUUUGE zebra, and follow the mini Zany Zebra trail!
The fun doesn’t end on September 25th though – from 14th-17th October, all of the sculptures come together for a one off ‘Zebratastic Weekend’ celebration at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton!
What a fun activity! All of the zebras are so cute and I really like the colors of the last one. I wish our local zoo would do something like that.
First off, you have a beautiful family! Also, I never heard of the Zebra Trail before – how cute is that?! Those Zebras really are beautiful and each very unique!
Gorgeous photos! What a great way to get out and about and see things you wouldn’t usually see. I want one of those zebras to live in my garden!!
What lovely pictures I quite fancy going on the Zebra trail now too 🙂 We have family in Southampton so would be nice to combine a visit with seeing these gorgeous Zebra’s x
That Zany Zebra Trail looks like so much fun! I love the creative designs. They’re the perfect thing to see on a walking trip. I hope they come to our area one day.
It sounds like a fun activity to do with the kids especially since they’re going to learn a lot while spending quality time with you. I think it’s great and I would love to do this with my daughter, it’s a nice learning experience for her.
Wow this sounds like a super fun time, loving the photos! I love anything I can do as a family or with friends.
This looks like so much fun! I love the brightly colored zebras. I love the pictures!
How fun!! This is something that we would love to do! It would get us out of the house and doing something that doesn’t cost money! I LOVE IT!
Love zebras! Looks like you guys had a blast! I’d so take my kids!
What a neat place and a fun activity for the whole fam!
First off how cute are these little guys, so freaking adorable. How cool is this, this looks so freaking cool. I love the various Zebra’s, I would take pictures with them all.
Those really are pieces of art! I love zebras so I think that I need one of these for my backyard haha!
Sounds like a fun place to visit.. My kids love animals,…. zebras are cute, kids love them!
Looks like fun! Your kiddies are cute x
These Zebra are such beautiful pieces of artwork. All of the photo turned out so beautiful too.
This looks like so much fun – I love all of the colours of them x x
How these look fab, such stunning pictures. We did a similar one with lions in Bournemouth one year
Awww what a cute post. These zebras are so bright and pretty. Would love to see these in person.
My daughter loves zebras so she would get a kick of this! My favourite is the black and white mosaic one!
Those are too cute! We have something similar with horses and cows. They are decorated all different throughout town.
look at all the artistic zebra out there, I would have loved to decorate one! It must have been a fun time looking around at all the colorful, bright, and cute zebras!
Wow.. sounds like a so much fun! Those Zebras really are beautiful!