Wildlife Park 2.
2 Jun 2009 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curiouswombatHere are a few more of the pictures I took on Sunday at the Curraghs.
These are a bit random. The warm weather, and the sunshine, meant that some of the animals, particularly those who, in their natural habitat tend to be most active at dawn and dusk, were a bit sleepy!
There is a family of racoons - not all that interesting to some of my American friends, but exotic to us! All of them were asleep in the trees - but this guy was just wonderfully 'flopped' over a couple of branches.
The red pandas were also having an afternoon nap - this one was literally within arms reach of the footpath - he was sitting up as we approached, but then turned, slowly, until he was facing away from us all, and decided to sleep too.
The capybara had wandered across a couple of wet areas and was resting under a tree on an island inhabited by small monkeys. Someone behind us said "Oh - look! There's a great big animal there - a gorilla or something!" I told her what it was, and then thought that perhaps I shouldn't have - how much more exciting her day would have been if she thought that she had seen a gorilla!
Then there were the wallabies. We have wild wallabies - honestly! A few of the first ones on the island, forty-five years ago, escaped, and bred happily, and there is a resident wild population now of about 100. But these ones were within the confines of the park.
The Joey was really a bit too big to get back in the pouch... but that wasn't going to stop him trying!
And finally, for tonight - here is a rare kzin caught without the usual camouflage of many layers of clothing!
We finally moved my office this morning - it is going better than I expected - the IT is all moved and it worked - they simply plugged my phone in and it went "Hmm - this is a new socket - I will tell it who I am..." and within five minutes it was all hooked up - still with my number - even though it is now in a building about half a mile from the socket it was in before!! Well, it impressed me!
These are a bit random. The warm weather, and the sunshine, meant that some of the animals, particularly those who, in their natural habitat tend to be most active at dawn and dusk, were a bit sleepy!
There is a family of racoons - not all that interesting to some of my American friends, but exotic to us! All of them were asleep in the trees - but this guy was just wonderfully 'flopped' over a couple of branches.
The red pandas were also having an afternoon nap - this one was literally within arms reach of the footpath - he was sitting up as we approached, but then turned, slowly, until he was facing away from us all, and decided to sleep too.
The capybara had wandered across a couple of wet areas and was resting under a tree on an island inhabited by small monkeys. Someone behind us said "Oh - look! There's a great big animal there - a gorilla or something!" I told her what it was, and then thought that perhaps I shouldn't have - how much more exciting her day would have been if she thought that she had seen a gorilla!
Then there were the wallabies. We have wild wallabies - honestly! A few of the first ones on the island, forty-five years ago, escaped, and bred happily, and there is a resident wild population now of about 100. But these ones were within the confines of the park.
The Joey was really a bit too big to get back in the pouch... but that wasn't going to stop him trying!
And finally, for tonight - here is a rare kzin caught without the usual camouflage of many layers of clothing!
We finally moved my office this morning - it is going better than I expected - the IT is all moved and it worked - they simply plugged my phone in and it went "Hmm - this is a new socket - I will tell it who I am..." and within five minutes it was all hooked up - still with my number - even though it is now in a building about half a mile from the socket it was in before!! Well, it impressed me!
