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Second Chance Part 4 with video

Third try? *lol* (August 3, 2008)



We went to check on the little ones today, at first we saw nothing then heard some babies chirping like they do. The sound was coming from the other side of the dam!!! UGH, we rode our bikes over and sure enough there they were ... counting .... but there are only five babies now. The parents reconized us I am sure because they came right over to us. I am sure they were expecting us to feed them, there was still enough time in the day to get them back over the dam, so we fed them tiny pieces of cut up potatoes (we figure this is better than bread) no preservatives and so on. So we fed them for over a half an hour. Then decided to check up on the the small bridge previously made to make sure it was ok for them to try and get back up again. A city worker we presume had cut the grass sometime in the last couple days and the sticks for thier pathway up to land had been dismantled. So I fixed it back up again and put some food on and around the bottom of the small handmade bridge and above, hoping one of the parents would stand there while the small ones made it up.



Today there are no fisherman close by, so we were hoping they would remember the way back up. Then all of sudden here comes a fisherman, he brought his chair, a net and fishing pole. We watched him set up his little fishing area ... then one of the parents climbed up over the dam and then the other. Jeez now we were wondering how the heck the babies would get over. Well they started climbing up the bridge that I had made for them and four went over!!! Both the parents and the four that made it up to the grass and back in the water on the other side had started swimming toward the nest forgetting all about number five baby :(
Now there is one little fellow squeeking away at the bottom of the dam. I didn't see either parent coming back for number five, so makkie asked the fisherman if we could use his net to get this little one out and over to the other side. I grabbed the net and went towards the baby meerkoet slowly, he hid under a small part of the dam where it meets the grass and there was no way of getting him. So I thought I would just hold the net there until he comes out, which he did! I now have the small one in the net, I gently lifted him out of the water on one side and put him in the water carefully on the other side of the dam, and he started squeeking very loud and one of the parents started swimming towards us from the nest ... awe this one was saved!



The next day we went back and there were only four babies left ... the next day only two!




Today (August 20, 2008) we went and checked on them, they were not stuck behind the dam, they were not in their nest! We walked around over the bridges until we found them, there they were! two BIG babies and parents. We now are thinking they are big enough not to be eaten by a fish or a seagull. They do not have little red heads anymore, and they are soon to catch up to the same size of the parents. Almost definatly sure they will make it to adulthood.

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Formula 1 Bavaria City Racing event

August 17, 2008

Today is the Rotterdam Formula 1 Bavaria City Racing event. We rode the tram as far as Wilhelminaplein, the tram will not go any further than this because of the the race here today. Then walked over the Big Swan Bridge (Erasmus Bridge)


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over towards the double suspension Willems bridge




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to get video to share with one and all.

Today we are watching a demonstration of a TF107 for Panasonic Toyota Race Car. Other cars include Force India and Renault
In one more week it will be the beginning of the European Grand Prix on the new street circuit in Valencia. One of the drivers we see today Jarno Trulli will be demonstrating the power and speed of this car racing through the streets of Rotterdam to thrill the huge crowd. This was his first time for Jarno Trulli driving on a 2.2km track through the centre of Rotterdam.
Others include Robert Doornbos, who was driving the 2007 Renault F1 car the Dutch driver gave an astonishing demo for his hometown crowd also setting a new speed record of 292 km/h in the city streets also making lots of donuts, practice starts and powerdrifts
Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella of the Force India F1 Team.
Sakon Yamamoto ING Renault F1 Team






It is very hard to find a nice spot to get video of this event. There is about a half a million people carrying stools ladders and other items to get a good view of the racers. As we look around at the whole scene of this event, there are boats of all shapes and sizes, water taxis, jet skis, tour boats in this the worlds largest port.





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I was night manager at a hotel in Anchorage, Alaska ..... while going to the laundry room to get something for a customer, I noticed a moose just peeking over the snow bank from down the hill. This isn't a small hill! So I watched her for awhile. I got back to the office and decided to go in my room and get my camera, moose pictures are always nice to pass along to others. My brother was visiting me at the time, he works just up the hill at a local gift shop.













We both went across the parking lot and there she was, once she got a little closer I knew she was probably about two years old. So I just started talking to her, aww are you alone? Where is your mom? and so on. I know I am pretty strange, but I absolutly love animals. She started following us. I had to stand behind one of our customers trucks because she was getting just a little to close.















Kept snapping pictures and talking to her, and she kept following us. She came up over the hill, walking across the parking lot, she kept coming!
around the dumpster, closer ... closer! Till she was right at the front door. I was telling my brother jeez get in here and shut the door. *lol*



He did come in, but went to my fridge and grabbed some carrots (he is a total animal lover also) so there was no stopping him! In Alaska we pretty much have a rule of thumb
and that is DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS (a fed bear is a dead bear) and so on.



But he HAD to feed her. While she was very close to the front door he was feeding her the carrots and he/she (brother and moose) dropped some and the moose kicked him gently on his elbow.

Just a few minutes later a couple were just coming in from work and what not. They also went and got some food and was feeding her and taking pics. Here is the set of pictures as she was walking up to the front door of the hotel to check in!!! hahaha

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