1. Maintenance crew pours new visitor pathway.
2. The Exhibits crew finishes rockwork
armature on the new ocelot holding room.
3. Scratch coat. The first of two shotcrete
finishes. This establishes the structure of the rocks.
4. Scratch coat on the ocelot holding room,
compare with photo above.
 5.
Shooting the carve coat--the second coat--on the facades.
6. Carving.
7. Carve coat complete on ocelot holding room
facade. Side view.
8. Ocelot holding room, front view. Here,
a small waterfall will feed a shallow pool in the foreground.
9. Side wall rock facade, finished, with
artificial buttress tree snag now installed.
10. Formwork defines planter areas and
new exhibit slab to be poured.
11. The smaller exhibit room. Buttress
tree snag in foreground, animal shift door to holding room
on wall, and rebar mat in place for new exhibit floor slab.
12. Late afternoon. Contemplating another
artificial tree--this one in the larger exhibit room.
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