From the 4th - 6th May, park visitors will be able to meet the Australian puppies, as well as enjoy the bank holiday surrounded by some of the cutest barn animals ever. Bluey and Bingo are set to be a big hit for bristolians looking for a day out.
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00:00 So my name is Doug Douglas and I own Avon Valley Adventure Park and we're based just
00:05 outside of Bristol and I spend my life trying to think of crazy new things to entertain
00:11 families in the Bristol area.
00:15 And tell us one of these exciting new things that is happening this spring.
00:21 Well we have a candy cannon which is, as you can imagine, it joins up sweets and a cannon
00:30 and we load a cannon full of sweets and fire it over the kids heads and they flutter down
00:34 and the kids go crazy picking them up.
00:36 So that's one of my bizarre crazy ideas.
00:41 And you have some four-legged friends coming to visit.
00:43 Tell me about that.
00:45 Oh yes, May Bank Holiday, so the 4th of May, is going to be an exciting day.
00:53 So we have Bluey and Bingo coming to the park which is going to be epic.
01:00 Not only have we got Bluey and Bingo, we also run a normal day out.
01:03 So you can ride the train, you can drive mini jeeps, you can see Dino Valley, you can do
01:06 all the other amazing things that we do.
01:09 And during the Bluey and Bingo May weekend, we're going to be doing some dog agility courses.
01:15 So if you think your dog is up for a bit of agility, not quite on the crufts level, but
01:21 let's see, then you can come down and use our dog agility course that we're going to
01:24 put in here.
01:25 So it's going to be really cool.
01:26 And tell us a little bit about your other animals.
01:29 Obviously it's spring, so you've had the birth of some lambs.
01:34 Tell us about that.
01:35 Yeah, so we always do sort of a lambing live event and what we try and do, it takes quite
01:43 a bit of work, is we try and time our ewes to give birth at a particular time, which
01:51 is the school holidays.
01:52 So hopefully we then have a lamb giving birth every day.
01:56 And that worked pretty well for the first week.
01:59 The weather got dreadful and all the lambs just went, get these lambs out of me.
02:05 So they gave birth pretty quickly when it got cold.
02:09 So we've now got a barn full of baby lambs jumping around.
02:13 At the Blue Inbinger weekend, they're going to be out in one of our paddocks because we're
02:16 going to be letting them out.
02:17 And that's really cool to watch lambs getting out into the field, running around.
02:21 We're in a very weird time.
02:23 We're kind of coming out of COVID, but we're very much in the cost of living crisis.
02:28 What will a day out to Avon Valley bring to people in Bristol?
02:33 You can come and just, that is your day.
02:36 So we're really conscious that the cost of living is hitting people and we're trying
02:40 to do everything we can to keep ourselves as flexible as possible.
02:43 The live dinosaurs roaming around the site.
02:45 We basically turned the whole park into this huge, epic Jurassic dino park.
02:51 That's May.
02:52 And then the summer we go crazy with, we've got a massive water slide coming in to the
02:57 end of the park.
02:58 Again, we just go a bit Avon Valley crazy.