杭州阿立
阿立，杭州人，理工男，浙江大學工學學士、碩士，美國肯塔基大學博士。 近幾年在海外中文網寫些回憶、隨筆、遊記和詩詞曲，筆名杭州阿立。
Lindsay野生動物體驗中心（上）
--2025舊金山的小日子係列30
杭州阿立
2025年5月4日
書接上集《葡萄酒節小雨大封路 美酒魚鮮別有好去處》：
https://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog/82791/202506/22572.html
2025年5月3日，星期六。
今天核桃溪市的Lindsay野生動物體驗中心（Lindsay Wildlife Experience）慶祝70年活動。體驗中心平時票價17刀，老人（65歲以上）/孩子（2刀17歲）/學生15刀。今天免費開放。
我們和小小阿立一起帶阿立三世和小小公主去活動（小小阿立嫂已另有安排）。
Lindsay野生動物體驗中心的曆史原文在此（懶得翻譯了）：
Lindsay History
More than 60 years ago, Alexander “Sandy” Lindsay shared his curiosity and passion for the natural world with the people of Walnut Creek, especially children. What started as a garage full of locally collected specimens, and the occasional wild animal, slowly developed into series of informal classes and neighborhood hikes. Lindsay quickly inspired like-minded individuals to cooperate with his education efforts, and in 1955 the Diablo Junior Museum Association officially formed, including a governing board of directors. That is the story of how the Lindsay Wildlife Experience began.
As the years have passed, our truly grassroots organization has continued to grow. Initially housed in an elementary school, the museum began by offering school age children summer classes and field trips focused on the natural world. In 1962, we changed the name to the Alexander Lindsay Junior Museum to honor the legacy of its late founder, who passed at age 44.
After nearly a decade of operation, it became apparent that a permanent, year-round site was necessary. In 1965, as the City of Walnut Creek was enlarging its park system, the museum moved into an unoccupied water pump house that was available in Larkey Park. With a new 5,000 square-foot home, the museum could now develop and display a permanent collection of live, non-releasable native wildlife and natural history objects.
People started coming to the museum for assistance with wild animals that had been injured or orphaned because of intense urban growth and the loss of native habitat. In response, we took a giant conservation leap forward in 1970 with the addition of our wildlife hospital, the first of its kind in the country and still among the largest.
The City of Walnut Creek assumed operation of the museum until 1986, when it became independently operated as a private, not-for-profit organization. Museum programming now catered to all age groups, and in 1987 the board of directors dropped “Junior” from the organization, shortening the name to The Lindsay Museum. In 1990, the museum was re-accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, validating the institution’s quality of programming and management practices. The museum received notice in 1984 that it would have to move. A capital campaign was launched, yielding $7 million, and the new 28,000-square-foot museum in Larkey Park opened in 1993. Finally, the name was changed to Lindsay Wildlife Experience in 2015 to better illustrate what the center means to the community and visitors.
The Lindsay Wildlife Experience is the country’s first wildlife hospital, a zoological organization, and an educational museum specializing in native California wildlife. Every year our veterinarians, husbandry experts, biologists, and teachers treat more than 5,000 wild animal patients, care for the 70 animal ambassadors that call Lindsay home, and educate approximately 100,000 people.
閑話休提，言歸正傳。
早上到小小阿立家集合，開一輛車去Lindsay野生動物體驗中心。
路上小小阿立（大意）：“今天有很多阿立三世的幼兒園童鞋也會來。”
不亦樂乎！
到了野生動物園體驗中心附近，沿街已經停滿了車。我們開到對麵的教堂去，運氣還好，有個停車位。停車場就碰到幾家阿立三世的童鞋，把他樂的。
穿過馬路，到了Lindsay野生動物體驗中心。
戶外就有些展覽：
管理區規劃三國語言（英文，南美西班牙語，中文）：
動物世界小小百科知識：
還有些美食攤檔，照片當時隻拍了一處，回頭再說。
娜娜熊迷你甜甜圈：
去Lindsay野生動物體驗中心：
馬達加斯加嘶嘶蟑螂：
入口處的小賣部：
猛禽-空中獵手：
獨特的喙：
飛行專家（三維體驗老鷹的飛行）：
繼續參觀：
岩石上的猛獸：
平衡岩（Balancing Rock）：
欲知後事如何，請聽下回分解。
下集《Lindsay野生動物體驗中心（下）》：
