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Comments for the nature thread.

jimmy*part4 — Mon, 26 May 2014 13:37:21 GMT

I really like the garden posted by Kopenhagen. My new backyard is a blank slate I would love to find the time to make something like that. It reminds me of a Japanese garden. If I cound get the tree laying on its side in Dsk's pic...it'd be great!

The Moeraki boulders posted by Am*3...bit of a mystery those things. Millions of years ago the oceans were red due to a high iron content. Stromatolites (sort of the early version of coral reefs) formed all over the planet producing oxygen creating a rust in the ocean which formed the iron deposites we dig up today and changed it's colour to what it is now.

Mentioned here at 16:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsn3wpVAcjk

It's possible those boulders are Stromatolites. Maybe your drier hotter weather caused the smoother shape than elsewhere.

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mtnlane — Mon, 26 May 2014 13:41:25 GMT

Those stromatolites are amazing aren't they! We have a heap of them here in Western Australia - up at Shark Bay.

I don't have any pics of them on this computer atm and anyone could google them - just saving anyone the trouble lol

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=shark+bay+stromatolites&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=zkODU-TdKIXokgXKqoDYAQ&ved=0CEQQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=955

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1966kelso — Mon, 26 May 2014 13:41:43 GMT

I love those round boulders.

I'm really hoping some of the os people will post some squirrel pictures this week.

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Anonymous — Mon, 26 May 2014 13:43:53 GMT

Omg ..it's great ..busy as ..good to see !

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imastawka — Mon, 26 May 2014 13:46:45 GMT

@1966kelso wrote:
I love those round boulders.

I'm really hoping some of the os people will post some squirrel pictures this week.

Take a closer look at kopenhagen's pics post #55. There's a skwerl

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jimmy*part4 — Mon, 26 May 2014 13:51:22 GMT

@1966kelso wrote:
I love those round boulders.

I'm really hoping some of the os people will post some squirrel pictures this week.

I love those round boulders.

Yes, pretty cool. I was surprised they exist here far inland.

I'm really hoping some of the os people will post some squirrel pictures this week.

I wish I had a camera back when I rescued that orphaned baby squirrel. I've mentioned it before and how it would nuzzle my ear and purr. I recently saw this video where the poster of it thinks the cat taight the squirrel to purr. I don't have a cat...AND I don't purr either, lol. Well...maybe sometimes! 🙂

Summers almost here and in my new ultra quiet backyard I'll get to know some squirrels and take some pics. Hopefully in time for a theme they'd fit.

Edit: here's the purring Squirrel...https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GyGm8g0OR-g

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jimmy*part4 — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:00:43 GMT

Sorry, wrong video.

You can hear it purring at 1:35 in this one....https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fHT1nAX46dM

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dskracing — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:03:33 GMT

Stromatolites Cervantes WA...near thhe Pinnacles

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1966kelso — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:05:17 GMT

awww that is so cute! do they make good pets?

I think I have been smitten with squirrels eversince I read The Children of Cherry Tree Farm by Enid Blyton when I was about 8

edit: um, the squirrels not the rocks

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*pepe — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:06:26 GMT

i was just about to post that the squirrel in cherry tree farm and willow tree farm books purred!

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jimmy*part4 — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:17:00 GMT

@1966kelso wrote:
awww that is so cute! do they make good pets?
I think I have been smitten with squirrels eversince I read The Children of Cherry Tree Farm by Enid Blyton when I was about 8

edit: um, the squirrels not the rocks

I have to admitt I was little nervous at first. It was a wild animal and no telling what it might have carried, so I wouldn't recommend it. But I couldn't resist when I saw the little thing in a gravel parking lot...it walked up to my feet and put its arms out like a toddler wanting to be picked up.

But yes, it was a good pet, although I didn't make it an actual pet. While working I'd keep in it a cage outside to keep it safe, but so it could see other squirrels and get to know them. I'd open the cag when I was home and let it run around.

It grew quickly and I'd leave the cage open more and more, till one day it just left for good *sniff*.

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amber-eyed-girl — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:18:25 GMT

I would not adopt a wild one, it could be infected. Squirrels, bats, both really cute but not to be handled, kelso 🙂

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cherry*135 — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:37:57 GMT

The round boulders I posted are in New Zealand, in the South Island at Moeraki.

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cherry*135 — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:50:05 GMT

I have 2 squirrel photos

English one

and American one

This one looks cuter, I will put it in the Nature thread.

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freakiness — Mon, 26 May 2014 15:01:11 GMT

@*pepe wrote:
i was just about to post that the squirrel in cherry tree farm and willow tree farm books purred!

I so much wanted a squirrel after reading those books.

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fourandsixpants — Mon, 26 May 2014 15:11:49 GMT

We have these Stromatolites here in Bunbury Wa.....at what we call the 'Back Beack'(main beach on ocean side)....usually you cannot see them as they are submerged. You must be careful not to dive head first into this area of water where they are situated, for obvious reasons. I think just north of Bunbury there are same in Lake Preston, near Myalup too.

....and not far away also -Lake Clifton is in the Yalgorup Lakes National Park, less than half an hour’s drive south of Mandurah along Old Coast Road. The thrombolites sit in shallow water along a 6km-long section of Lake Clifton’s eastern shoreline.

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jimmy*part4 — Mon, 26 May 2014 15:11:09 GMT

@am*3 wrote:

and American one

This one looks cuter, I will put it in the Nature thread.

I was going to say he looks just like my Squirly and now I see from the photo thread he's from NYC.

So, it COULD be him! Come back home Squirly!!!

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azureline** — Mon, 26 May 2014 21:56:12 GMT

I can't find my squirrel photo from Wimbledon!

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lionrose.7 — Mon, 26 May 2014 22:40:16 GMT

I love all the photos that are just snapped on peoples travels, better then a lot of professional ones.

I will try not to put to many pics of the beach in because I have hundreds haha

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the*scarlet*pimpernel — Tue, 27 May 2014 01:02:14 GMT

I want to live here. It looks like t's high up in the clouds, close to heaven