One day in October a few years ago, we found a little kitten in the gras, probably 3-4 weeks old and no mother to see around....What could we do? we took her in the house fed her by hand and called her Lieschen Müller. She grew to be a beautiful, independent, intelligent, wild thing. Unfortunately she died in an accident one and a half years later....
There was a giraffe's head in our car! At the Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen/Germany giraffes are not very shy and they love to have a good look at what is inside your car. There are many other exciting animals, but we love the giraffes best, so please have a look the attached video of them :-)
What I liked most about the place where we lived before we moved to Hamburg, that is was very much within the nature; a fact that brought uninvited transient visitors....
It is not getting less, it does not wear off: The exciting feeling of meeting porpoise while traveling across the Baltic Sea. Most of the times we only see the dorsal fin appearing suddenly out of the water. But sometimes we are lucky and these amazing animals start to play with Madita, an event which causes permanent smiling.
For German readers please check out our article on segelreporter.com. For all others at least have fun watching this video :-)
Today is Corpus Christi and the school of our children was closed although it is not an official holiday in Hamburg. A friend of us invited us to the Zoo. I didn't bring our camera, but we have been there before and Wolfgang took some nice pictures that time, I would like to share. Especially the recently built Arctic Sea department impresses us over and over. Still, the question remains whether zoos are up to date, with the new media allowing virtual travels where real traveling is difficult, somehow overcoming the need for shutting animals in relatively small compounds.... Needless to say that there are as mostly pros and cons; I am yet undecided and feel it is on one hand hard to tell, how zoo animals really feel about their situation. On the other hand I can not imagine that they would not prefer to be free. But then again, what about species conservation? Somehow pros and cons seem quite balanced but that might change with globalization in one way or the other. One effect visiting zoos, is always the wish to rather observe these wild animals in there natural environment.
