Photos and trips and Absence Without Leave

[winter]

First: Photos from my trip to Cobh and Fota Wildlife Park are up. I still need to bother D into mailing me the one he got of me hand-feeding a lemur :D

Second: Saturday-Tuesday I'll be in Belfast and Dublin. Back on Tuesday evening, and I might get to check my mail on Monday at ladylalaith's, but other than that, netless. Expect more photos when I get back ;)

Comments

[guede-mazaka.livejournal.com]

Capybara! Capybara! Socute. *squees*

Hey, can I snag one of those pics?

[winter]

Sure :)

They were absolutely wonderful. And wandering totally free - you could have petted them if you wanted to. And the babies!

[guede-mazaka.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Now to talk people into iconing them for me...

And my God, those babies. Furry little 'dorable dumplings.

[winter]

I'd offer, but I'm leaving in 12 hours and have to do my nails and sleep in the meantime ;)

I was taking pictures of the pelicans, and then someone went, WTF's THAT? I said capybara, and then the babies came out... instant squee. I melted, and I have about a dozen pictures of them - alas they were a fair distance away, so I had to do them on maximum zoom and some came out blurry :S

[guede-mazaka.livejournal.com]

Socute. I love capybaras. Bill Peet, who did some wonderful children's books, had a capybara for a pet and he wrote this lovely book on it called 'Cappyboppy.' It was one of my favorites back when I was knee-high.

[flamebyrd]

Hee, kangaroos and emus!

It always surprises me to see them in non-Australian places, for some reason.

[winter]

For good reasons, the dangerous Australian kickers were behind an electrified fence (emus) and a river (kangaroos) ;)

I had enough problems with the ostrich trying to eat my camera...

[flamebyrd]

Hee! Sounds wise. At least for the emus.

At Perth zoo all that stands between you and the red kangaroos is a fence. In the loosest sense of the word. We're talking a log at about thigh level here.

The 'roos are mostly just interested in sleeping. *grins*

[winter]

One of the Irish people in the Photographic Society (which organized the trip) told me the roos at Fota used to run free, too. Until, apparently, something happened - alas, no-one had the gory details ;)

[bandonbanshee.livejournal.com]

An emu attacked us in Fota once.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Excellent animal pics.

I like giraffes and zebras. But those capybaras are cute too.

Gina

[mayoini.livejournal.com]

Wow, great photos! Really well done and interesting. Much love to you~ ^^ Have fun! ^^