Me aged 6, and 60 years on.
Some of you looked and commented kindly on my post taken at Currumbin Sanctuary, here where I live.
I dug up a few more of my time volunteering there a few years ago, and a couple that I took a still image from my Dad's movie of the 1950's. (He had a 16mm movie camera and I have some wonderful footage that I transferred to DVD) Those photos are dreadful quality, won't win any prizes, but I'm putting them in for a look anyway.
I was about 6 here I guess.
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My dear mother (would have been around 1956
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And 60 years on, in the same bird enclosure.
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With the 4 dingos (brothers). The white one would not survive in the wild, too different.
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Feeding the eels. An ibis trying to get a look in..risky with those razor sharp teeth of the eels. I used to bring them in by stamping my foot near the water's edge. They could feel the vibrations.
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Silly image...I'm lining up an emu with the daisy air rifle.
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Fun series. Looks like you took a young love, with the exception of the Daisy, into a life long career. I commend you on that.
DOOK
Loc: Maclean, Australia
Cool ones, Jude. I used to give the pigeons a hard time with my Daisy, but I don't think I ever actually hit one, lol. Childhood memories are precious, aren't they?
Interesting series. How come there are dingos at the sanctuary? I thought they only existed on Fraser Island.
DebAnn wrote:
Interesting series. How come there are dingos at the sanctuary? I thought they only existed on Fraser Island.
There are around 200,000 dingoes throughout Australia, there's a dingo fence that runs for 3,500 miles, to keep sheep (mainly), safe.
cessnalvr wrote:
Nice. A cool series
Thanks so much cessnalvr.
pdsdville wrote:
Fun series. Looks like you took a young love, with the exception of the Daisy, into a life long career. I commend you on that.
Thanks..I grew up in the country with lots of animals, love them. The Daisy, well.. I aimed straight one day and shot a chook (sorry, chicken that is), and that was the end of the Daisy air rifle for me.
DOOK wrote:
Cool ones, Jude. I used to give the pigeons a hard time with my Daisy, but I don't think I ever actually hit one, lol. Childhood memories are precious, aren't they?
Funny how we were allowed to muck around with daisys as kids...imagine these days!!
You are welcome, and yes I am often told I look like my mum, though she's been gone now for 12 years. I was a volunteer at the Currumbin Sanctuary, for a year. It was fun, but we go away too much camping and I was always saying I couldn't do my shift so I stopped.
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