One of Jungle Gardens' primary attractions is a bird sanctuary called Bird City. It provides roosts for snowy egrets and other wildfowl species.

In 1895 McIlhenny raised eight egrets in captivity on the island, and released them in the fall for migration. They returned the next spring with other egrets, and have continued to do so over generations. Today thousands of egrets inhabit the island from early spring to late summer. Numerous alligators, black bears, and deer also inhabit the island, in addition to nutria, otters, muskrats, snakes, and other wild animals.

The gardens are planted with azaleas, Japanese camellias, hydrangeas, Louisiana irises, Egyptian papyrus, bamboo, and wisteria. A glass temple, set within a Chinese garden, houses a centuries-old statue of Buddha given to McIlhenny in 1936. Four miles of gravel roads are lined with live oak trees and Spanish moss. There are also many walking paths.

The man left the next day, and true to his promise when he looked to the moon he would howl with delight at the thought of the bear he had become friends with.

The man watched the sunset over the far side of the valleys mountain tops. He then proceeded to retrace his steps back down the mountain to the valley floor. When he got back to the camp, he sat down and proceeded to make a small campfire. Once the fire was going, the man went to the lake to try to catch a fish for supper. While sitting on the water's edge, the man noticed that there accross the lake, exactly where it appeared in his dream sat the Grizzly bear. He got up slowly and walked back to the fire without catching a fish for dinner. The whole night long, he kept wood on the fire and one eye on the bear, and the bear didn't move until the sun began to lighten the sky at dawn.

This dream begins with Suzie and I in her van. The van is grey in reality, but this time it was black. I was driving, and Suzie was in the back buckled into the van, and in her wheelchair. Suddenly a white car clipped us and sent the van into a tree. Her van is old, and there isn't an airbag. I was impaled on a branch, and all bloodied from the windshield. There were cars stopping to help us, but no one was doing anything. No one knew how to get out, and they were all worrried about her although I was the one injured. I was the only one there that knew how to get her out. I struggle and break off the branch that is stuck in my body. I then free her, and the crowd all applauds, they get her out first. While everyone is worried about some bruising and scratches, I am slowly dying. Nobody remembers me, and I awake. The worst part of the dream was that throughout the dream, beginning after the accident, Suzie kept repeating over and over. "Stop Pete! You're hurting me!"

I was laying in a casket. Renae was there looking down on me. She was crying, but there was a smile on her face. Then a tear dropped on my forehead.