The Petting Farm at Beacon Hill Park is a real favourite with kids as the animals seem to really thrive on all the attention. That is, all except the turkey, who hates noise according to the sign hung by his enclosure. He didn’t look particularly happy when a busload of school children came roaring through. The park is full of peacocks and peahens who can all fly and so voluntarily choose to spend most of their time at the petting farm rather than in other parts of the park. I think some of the peacocks think they are human because one set himself up at the entrance of the farm with his fan spread out. He stayed planted there, putting on a show for all the children as they came in. The ladies at the ticket booth said that he did that most mornings at opening time.
The goat pen is where the children get to do all the animal handling. There are dozens of brushes available for brushing a goat. The children brush and pet the goats to their hearts content and the goats never seem to
Other parts of the park include gardens, playing fields, a playground and a hill over-looking the ocean and the Olympic peninsula in Washington state.
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