GETTING THERE The Golden Gate Ferry Service fleet, Ferry Building (& 415/923-2000; pikes peak center www.goldengateferry.org), operates between the San Francisco Ferry Building, at the foot of Market Street, and Sausalito. Service is frequent, departing at reasonable intervals every day except New Year s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. Phone for an exact schedule. The ride takes a half-hour, and one-way fares to Sausalito are $5.60 for adults; $2.45 on weekdays and $4.20 on weekends pikes peak center for kids 6 to 12; $2.80 for seniors and passengers with disabilities; and free for children under 6. Family rates are available on weekends.
Other highlights include Koala Crossing, housing kangaroos, emus, and walleroos; Gorilla World, one of the world s largest exhibits of these gentle giants; and Penguin Island, home to a large breeding colony of Magellanic penguins. The Feline Conservation Center is a wooded sanctuary and breeding facility for the zoo s endangered snow leopards, Persian leopards, and other jungle cats. The Lion House is home to rare Sumatran and Siberian tigers, a rare white Bengal tiger, and the African lions (you can watch them being fed at 2pm Tues Sun). The latest exhibit, which opened in mid-2004, is African Savanna, a 3-acre mixed-species pikes peak center habitat pikes peak center with giraffes, zebras, antelope, and birds.
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