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It is a different world here. And sometimes, a different world is just what we need.
We fight our daily battles with bosses, spouses, children. We contend with angry commuters and angry colleagues. We wrestle with our personal problems and financial worries and frustrations of all kinds. So yes, sometimes we need to escape to someplace else, to a different world, a gentle oasis far away from it all.
Perhaps a place of butterflies and birds. And even bugs.
Butterfly World in Coconut Creek is a magical experience. Walk in the doors and you are soothed by soft New Age and classical music. Tropical gardens and waterfalls and thousands of flowers of many varieties surround you. You pass through cooling mists of water and stroll by ponds teeming with koi fish.
Butterfly World offers so much, in fact, that I’ll need to break my visit this week into two stories to do it any justice at all. Today, butterflies and small birds.
My friend and I entered the area called the Tropical Rain Forest at about 10 a.m. The butterflies are at their busy best in the morning, especially if the sun is out. The amazing thing is that you really walk among the butterflies, which float and flit and play together all around you. No cases, no cages. This isn’t a zoo. Or maybe it really is in some way – the equivalent of walking around within the zoo exhibits rather than watching them from a distance. You’re a participant here, not an observer.
Thousands of utterly beautiful butterflies are everywhere: in the trees, on the walkway, on the rocks. Sometimes, they even land on you. Mostly, they fly.
I watched two all-white butterflies as they fluttered over and under each other in some playful dance, each of them delicate as lace but large, perhaps five inches across. One moment, they seemed like pieces of paper caught in a wind, tumbling up and down. The next moment, they appeared supernaturally pure and lovely, as if angels.
This is the sort of escape Butterfly World offers and both of us were charmed, spending maybe an hour with the butterflies. Finally we moved on to the aviaries full of small birds, the finches and hummingbirds and honeycreepers and euphonias.
Again, you walk through the doors into the aviary and you ARE the exhibit. The birds dart and hover all around you or rest perched in branches just inches from your head. You can feel the breeze when they fly close to you, actually hear the beating of their wings, the hummingbirds furiously dashing from one feeder to the next.
The soft music remains in the background during all of this and you can still hear the waterfalls and see the butterflies floating near other visitors not far away. And may you find yourself wondering why the rest of the world can’t be a bit more like this place. Wouldn’t it be nice …
Butterfly World is located at 3600 W. Sample Road. Call 954-977-4434 for information or visit www.butterflyworld.com.
On Tuesday, Part Two of my visit: the large birds and the new fascinating collection of bugs!
We fight our daily battles with bosses, spouses, children. We contend with angry commuters and angry colleagues. We wrestle with our personal problems and financial worries and frustrations of all kinds. So yes, sometimes we need to escape to someplace else, to a different world, a gentle oasis far away from it all.
Perhaps a place of butterflies and birds. And even bugs.
Butterfly World in Coconut Creek is a magical experience. Walk in the doors and you are soothed by soft New Age and classical music. Tropical gardens and waterfalls and thousands of flowers of many varieties surround you. You pass through cooling mists of water and stroll by ponds teeming with koi fish.
Butterfly World offers so much, in fact, that I’ll need to break my visit this week into two stories to do it any justice at all. Today, butterflies and small birds.
My friend and I entered the area called the Tropical Rain Forest at about 10 a.m. The butterflies are at their busy best in the morning, especially if the sun is out. The amazing thing is that you really walk among the butterflies, which float and flit and play together all around you. No cases, no cages. This isn’t a zoo. Or maybe it really is in some way – the equivalent of walking around within the zoo exhibits rather than watching them from a distance. You’re a participant here, not an observer.
Thousands of utterly beautiful butterflies are everywhere: in the trees, on the walkway, on the rocks. Sometimes, they even land on you. Mostly, they fly.
I watched two all-white butterflies as they fluttered over and under each other in some playful dance, each of them delicate as lace but large, perhaps five inches across. One moment, they seemed like pieces of paper caught in a wind, tumbling up and down. The next moment, they appeared supernaturally pure and lovely, as if angels.
This is the sort of escape Butterfly World offers and both of us were charmed, spending maybe an hour with the butterflies. Finally we moved on to the aviaries full of small birds, the finches and hummingbirds and honeycreepers and euphonias.
Again, you walk through the doors into the aviary and you ARE the exhibit. The birds dart and hover all around you or rest perched in branches just inches from your head. You can feel the breeze when they fly close to you, actually hear the beating of their wings, the hummingbirds furiously dashing from one feeder to the next.
The soft music remains in the background during all of this and you can still hear the waterfalls and see the butterflies floating near other visitors not far away. And may you find yourself wondering why the rest of the world can’t be a bit more like this place. Wouldn’t it be nice …
Butterfly World is located at 3600 W. Sample Road. Call 954-977-4434 for information or visit www.butterflyworld.com.
On Tuesday, Part Two of my visit: the large birds and the new fascinating collection of bugs!
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