Comments for the nature thread.

[jimmy*part4]

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.

[jimmy*part4]

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@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

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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*.

[amber-eyed-girl]

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

[cherry*135]

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

[cherry*135]

I have 2 squirrel photos

English one

and American one

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

[freakiness]

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@*pepe wrote:

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

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I so much wanted a squirrel after reading those books.

[fourandsixpants]

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.

[jimmy*part4]

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@am*3 wrote:

and American one

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

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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!!!

[azureline**]

I can't find my squirrel photo from Wimbledon!

[lionrose.7]

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

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

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