The Wildest Place For A Special Date

Why not choose Seaview Wildlife as a top destination for a special occasion..   Our Wildest Place For A Special Date is pitched at anniversary couples, birthday celebrations, honeymooners or just an excuse to hang out at super stylish Seaview!  We have had some wonderful couples join us already this season and this is just a few of the testimonials we have received….

“VIP animal encounters and great lunch”
Reviewed 2 August 2015 NEW
We booked The Wildest Date animal encounter and had a great day on 23 July. We were treated like VIPs and got to meet all the animals up close. We fed the cute meerkats, penguins and pelicans. All the keepers we met were so friendly and took lots of great photos of us so we have lovely memories to keep forever. Charlotte was very knowledgeable and tailored the whole morning to suit us.
The shop and cafe staff also treated us brilliantly and served us delicious, fresh food and yummy cakes. The donkeys, rabbits and wallabies were our favourite and we even got to cuddle Bear, the baby wallaby. We were very impressed with the DVD we received at the end containing loads of photos of us meeting all the animals. You should definitely book this as a romantic treat if you love animals.
Visited July 2015

Alan and Jill shared a Wildest Date experience –  “ Fern, Becky and all the staff gave us both 110% customer care and an enjoyable experience”

If you would like to book a fantastic wildest date please follow the link

http://www.seaviewwildlife.com/wildest-date.aspx

 

Love is in the air at Seaview…..

Love is in the air… first Fern our head keeper got married in June and now our lovely hard working keeper Charlotte has got engaged to her chap Matt…. congratulations to you both from all the team at Seaview….

The best routes onto our beautiful Island….

The best routes in....
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By plane …  http://www.eghn.org.uk/


By personal boat !


 

Please Vote – Family Traveller Awards 2015

Family Traveller Awards 2015 - Please Vote!

Great News!  The Isle of Wight has been shortlisted in the Best Domestic Destination For Families category in the Family Traveller Awards 2015.  Please vote for our beautiful Island  -  www.familytravellerawards.com

Opening today at 10am….

The Park is closed today due to heavy rains….

The Park is closed today Sunday July 26th 2015 due to heavy rains and very wet weather… Apologies for any inconvenience and we will re-open tomorrow at 10am ….

Moulting penguins…..

A penguin's feathers are very important for keeping them warm and dry while they are in the cold ocean water. Over time their feathers may wear and break (imagine wearing a sweater everyday for a year, it is bound to get some holes in it, and look a little worse for wear). In order to replace these feathers, penguins go through what is called a moult, where their old feathers are pushed out and replaced by new ones.



A penguin's moult is sometimes called a catastrophic moult, because unlike most birds that will moult a few feathers at a time, penguins moult all of their feathers all at once.  If you look at some of these pictures you can see that catastrophic is a good description, they often look like exploding pillows.

Moulting is a 3 stage process and starts weeks before the penguins actually replaces any feathers. Their bodies are making the new feathers while they are gorging themselves on fish which they must do to increase body weight to endure the 2nd stage. Penguins are not waterproof when they moult, so in stage 2 they stay on land for 2-3 weeks fasting until the new feathers have emerged from below the skin.   When the weather is hot the keeper team apply factor 50 suncream to their bare skin as sometimes in captivity our penguins lose their feathers and look patchy and bare before the new feathers are ready to push through.  During that time they will not eat, so a few weeks prior to the moult they will increase their food intake to build up a fat reserve to live off of while they are on land. Since we record how many fish each penguin eats everyday we can usually recognize when a penguin is getting ready to moult since their daily food totals can double or even triple. In the wild stage 3 involves returning to the sea to replenish lost body weight.
Here are a few pictures of some of our penguins right before they start moulting, notice how much bigger they look than a normal penguin.