Saturday 25 February 2012

Cotswold Wildlife Park February 2012

Talking to a giraffe

Climbing


watching flamingoes

The slide was a lot of fun

Thursday 16 February 2012

Elementary science with Grandpa

Purple paper, made using red cabbage juice, acts as litmus....
or "magic" as we preferred to call it.

Sunday 5 February 2012

Walk


Scenes from the Torres del Paine National Park

Some of the bluest icebergs we have seen

Signs of the recent very destructive fire

all that remains of one of the ranger's houses
These show the 3 "towers" that give the park its name. We took an awful lot of photos!


A few Chilean birds

Peter: can you identify any of these?!

Wednesday 1 February 2012

Day on Chiloe Island

some friendly Chleans who shared their picnic

dried mussels and fish...we did not sample these!

but had fried hake and salad.

Ringed kingfisher