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- Was walking toward Discovery Island in Animal Kingdom by 4:20pm
- More Cast Member previews of Pandora going on today.
- A floating mountain in Pandora looming over the treeline.
- King Louie
- Baloo
- A backup at the FastPass+ return line for Kali River Rapids due to guest confusion on how to scan their bands and how FastPass+ works.
- A White-cheeked Gibbon in Asia
- Some of our group went on Kali.. the rest of us opted to stay dry.
- Gibbons on the move.
- A closer look at the Gibbons
- The single rider queue for Expedition Everest is closed due to some renovation work.
- Inside the queue walls are up.
- More walls inside the gift shop
- Walking through Dinoland.
- Walked around the Tree of Life Gardens for a while.
- Decided to head for the Safari.
- A posted 25 minute wait.
- The wait seemed long.. but looking at the photo timestamps it was 26 minutes.
- Greater Kudu
- Ankole Cattle
- Ankole Cattle and White-bearded Wildebeest
- A wider look at the savanna
- Much of the burlap fencing is now gone.
- Female African lion
- A second lioness was also laying around.
- The male lion was doing the same.
- Water buck
- The sun is starting to set in Harambe.
- Rivers of Light merchandise is in several shops.
- Cast members with signs to help direct guests to the proper area for Rivers of Light.
- The sign is a little misleading since the entrance is no where near where she was standing.
- Walking through the Flame Tree BBQ seating area.
- The theater was starting to fill up for Rivers of Light. It was 8pm and the show was at 9:15pm tonight.
- Lotus Blossoms in position for Rivers of Light.
- Discovery Island Carnivale
- The largest lotus blossom staged for the show.
- Signs along the walkways to point you in the right direction.
- 8:12pm and the Standby line was moving into the theater. The line was still open.
- More signs as I walked around.
- Plenty of space on the bridge an hour before show time.
- Looking down at one of the smaller lotus blossoms
- It was quickly getting darker.
- Looking across at 8:20pm two of the three stand by areas look to be full already. The areas on the left that are not full are the dining package.
- Flights of Wonder is all quiet. They leave a couple of lights on the stage at night.
- A posted 15 minute wait for the Safari so I decided to give a night time one a try.
- As I walked the queue I did not see any other guests except for one family dropping off a stroller.
- Turned out to be a three minute walk and I had the load station to myself for a while.. except for the handful of cast members.
- It was a fairly quiet safari.. Not a lot of animals visible.
- The crocs were out as usual.
- A good portion looked like this... just black.. or maybe shadows.
- Hyenas laying around.
- One did lift their head.
- A giraffe moving around.
- This zebra decided to come out of the dark on a blind corner and scare our driver.
- A female lion getting ready to jump from one rock to another.
- The male lion is up on the rocks, but a little too dark in this photo.
- Harambe Wildlife Parti going on as I passed through.
- The Tree of Life Awakenings were going on. It was 9pm as I passed by.
- The view from the Flame Tree BBQ seating area. The projector and lights shine right on you as they illuminate the trees for the preshow for Rivers of Light.
- Looking up into the trees at the lights.
- The Discovery Island Carnivale wrapping up the last performance of the night.
- The stand by was closed as I passed by, it was 10 minutes to show time so not a surprise.
- They were still working to seat guests from what was left of the original standby queue.
- The bridge was 2-3 guests deep.
- Along the walkway in Asia it was 1-2 guests deep in most spots.
- The view from one of the standby areas right before show time.
- Guests standing on the other side of the walkway near the restrooms.. I did not go over there but cannot see how it would be even a remotely good view.
- I doubled back to the bridge and decided to watch from there as it appeared the best of the standby/outside the theater options.
- Some pictures from this vantage point.
- Many of the projections were much more clear from this angle.
- A video clip from the finale of Rivers of Light.
- Making my way back to Discovery Island.
- The view from the bridge to Discovery Island.
- Tree of Life Awakenings.
- Looks like the new bus stop concrete was poured. (Hard to tell in the dark).