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| I've had a lovely weekend down on the sussex coast. grand drive down, wee meal at the queens inn then down to the caravan in camber. Fucking massive lightning storm during the night on the site, felt like the rain was going to bore through the roof. Went off to port lympne wildlife park for most of the day. Fucking grand it was, a little underwhelming at first but soon picked up when I got round to the Monkey palace. Nice high walkway over the gorilla enclosure. Gorillas are ace, I chuckled as they ate monkey nuts, had the technique down to perfection of crunching it, holding the nuts in the mouth and spitting out the shells. Looked somehow demeaning to see a fucking huge gorilla picking up monkey nuts. huge enclosure though, outdoor and indoor bits, air con...the works. All the monkeys were topper, had some more capuchins in there. They were my personal favourites (they are the same type as fat Tom at Monkeyworld). All had such distinct characters and were so curious about me and this couple stood in front of them. One was sort of looking at the lad and doing continous comical frowns. He dropped his sunglasses over the fence and had to get a stick to try and retrive them. This fascinated them as they pushed the mesh forward to try and have a gawp down at the ground to see what was going on, occasionally looking up to look at the lads face, with an expression of 'what are you playing at, eh?'. I watched them for ages and in their tiny little faces you could detect such clear glimpses of humanity. Kind of comforting to see all these apes and monkeys, reminds me of how near we are to nature, despite all our pretensions of believing we are somehow above and distinct from it all. They had soem other ace apes in there, with big white beards as markings and that. And obviously the comedy baboons. One of the first enclosures I saw featured baboons, one carefully picking the bottom of the other (you can see a picture of this in my photos section, amongst others. felt like a reet kid being the only one sniggering at the baboons picking bottoms, and even more childish taking a photo of it). The lions were corking as well, I was about 5 feet from a couple at one point, including the massive male. Its eyes were incredible, penetrating and filled with menace, it somehow resembled one of those chinese dragon things. Some of the other smaller cats were cool, one was sat very still, I tried getting a photo of it, but then it stood up and started scraping at the ground (like a domestic cat does), I realised I had interrupted it having a shit, he shot me a look of disgust and strolled off. the red pandas were quite cool, bit unpleasant seeing the keeper come in with the food and give it a dead mouse, which it proceeded to crunch the head of. The tapir was quite amusing, just sat in his deep pool, only coming up for air once in a while. lots of insects though. Coast road back was quite interesting, massive pillbox installations that would have been some of the main invasion defences during world war 2. one of the fucking huge round ones was converted into a house. Went for a meal at the queens head afterwards (different place to the queens inn) in icklesham. Lovely old 16th century pub that has won lots of awards from Camra and the daily telegraph. But I don't drink beardy ales. But a grand place all the same, recommend anyone drops in if they are in the area, it's just outside of rye. Good vegetable curry an arl. Tooks some photos from the garden out the back which looks down the valley towards rye on the hill in the distance. a beautiful, and quintessentially english, view. There had been a rain storm but even in the dark cloud it made for a gorgeous view. it's in my photos bit too. anyway, this is getting tedious and I need a rather large poo. | ||
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