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Every June

I won't be going to the zoo again today, but I did buy a year pass on Sunday to 'Lone Pine', so I hope I make an effort to go a few more times before it expires ... which should be just before this time next year.

One thing that made me a little sad while walking around 'Lone Pine' was the rather small cages the flying animals were kept in.

Most of the other animals in the park seem to have enough room to move except the flying creatures.

I really don't like birds being kept in cages, and a few synchromystic incidents on Sunday rammed it home for me.

One was seeing a wild Tawny Frogmouth visit its friend in the cage, like it was there on a prison visit.

The other was when I got home that afternoon and picked up from where I left off in my current book that I'm reading 'Jack of Diamonds' and read the passage below.

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The bird park I visited in Singapore last year had plenty of room in their aviaries for the birds to fly around in.

Some of the flamingos I saw in Singapore

I walked under these dingoes pictured below hoping they wouldn't take a wizz on me through the roof.

Dingo - The Trickster

With next year being the Year of the Goat/Ram, I thought it was amusing that the sheep are right next to the goats in the park:-)

There's even a quokka housed in the park and next month me and my youngest son are heading to the other side of the country to see some in the wild hopefully.

Lone Pine

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Every June 29th

I've lived in the sub-tropics just about all of my life, except for a week in Singapore in 2025.

And while I have lived in the Australian state of Queensland for most of my life, I have never traveled any further north by land transport than Gympie.

We don't have to worry about crocodiles and cassowaries roaming the bushland or waterways down here, except for in the zoos, which suits me just fine.

Give me the sub-tropics any day to the tropics, thank you.

I'm happy celebrating International Day of the Tropics right here in the sub-tropics:-)

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How To Celebrate National Camera Day? 📷📱📸

Every June 29th

I see that today is National Camera Day, but the only cameras I own are the ones in my iPhone and iPad.

And the only photo I have taken so far today is the one above of my Chinese wall calendar:-)

I did give the camera on my iPhone a good workout yesterday though, when I visited 'Lone Pine'.

Never Stand Under a Lone Tree
in a Storm?🌲🌩😱

There's a sculpture of a koala with its baby in this gum tree

Celebrating Birth at Lone Pine During Zoo and Aquarium Month?🌲🐨

And after bitching about how much I like QR Codes in one of my last posts, I see these plants for sale outside of 'Lone Pine', but you had to use the QR Code to find out the prices.

QR Codes

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Celebrating Birth at Lone Pine During Zoo and Aquarium Month?🌲🐨

Lone Pine

Apparently, if the last book I read is correct, life on the blue planet Earth started with some form of lightning strike to get things started.

Never Stand Under a Lone Tree in a Storm?🌲🌩😱

So, celebrating a belated birthday at a place named after a "Lone Pine" that was struck by lightning in 1975 seems kind of appropriate with what science knows so far;-)

Fire in the Sky

Ken Peterson, 2016 and Big Star Synchronicities

Ken Peterson, top centre

Hey, I'm an open-minded person, and if either religion or science could tell me a believable story of how life on Earth started, then I'd be happy and would stop searching, but neither makes much sense to me with the brain "God" gave me.

My last post was about the tree that the sanctuary is named after, which was stuck by lightning in 1975, the same year that Travis Walton claimed to be abducted by aliens, and the only story that I have believed nearly 100% as far as "abductee" stories go.

So, I guess I'm on the right path, since every single living organism at this "sanctuary" must have evolved from that lightning/s strike that set life in motion, right?

If you are ever in Brisbane, come and ponder that thought:-)

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