(Yes, I am aware it wrote woofs and not wolves, it ain't a typo.) One of my sisters loves wolves a lot. Literally, anything wolf related she is obsessed with. For the passed two years (and nearly three), at Christmas we have adopted her a wolf called Tundra. We went to visit her yesterday and here are some photos of the wolves. There's a lot I could say about wolves in captivity, but that isn't what this post is about, so enjoy! When we came in, the first wolf that we saw was this beautiful Artic one: And you can see another one in the background. Another wolf came up to the front while we were passing this enclosure to get to my sister's wolf at the bottom. However, the next wolf I think needed to a bit of a wash... Despite being the alpha female of her pack, my sisters wolf is very shy and we hadn't seen her properly yet. But her brother (the only male in the pack and, therefore, alpha male by default) was pacing up and down checking for when lunch was coming. But if you look in the top right hand corner of the photo, you can just about make out my sister's wolf. The staff then bought dinner for them. I'm not too much into wolves, but I still found it very interesting listening to all of the facts about them. However, they were eating dead deer (roadkill) which I found disgusting. But the food tempted all of the wolves out. The middle wolf is the submissive female in the pack and the back wolf is Tundra, the first time we'd ever seen her properly! It turns out that wolves don't just lick their lips in little red riding hood... A great view of Tundra! I was so surprised that we actually got to see her that time. Being the mature person that I am, I just couldn't help giggling at this sign. It really was a fun day, even if it's not really my thing. However, on the way out there was a little message which is what I thought I'd end the blog with.
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Hello there! It's Halloween coming and I've just finished my half term visit to family. While we were there, we went key jumping (for those people who don't know, it's quite literally jumping about 2 metres, maybe less, into the sea). We've been there before, years ago, but I have always chickened out jumping off. It sort of felt only right that I returned now to jump off and it feels great to have done it now. It actually wasn't that scary although when I was in mid jump the first time I was thinking "heck, there's not going back now". It wasn't that high, but hitting the water did hurt quite a bit if you didn't hit it right! Here are some photos from the day: (All photos taken by my uncle with a phone, so the quality isn't great.) First jump of the day, let's go! Cheered on by some friendly passers by and trying not to hit my sister (Emma) as I'm jumping. Just climbing out, the ladder was more scary than the jump. What a lovely view, wishing I lived in one of those houses. #notsponsoredbyoneill Warming up before the next jump. It was freezing ok! But so worth it. Ayeeeee into the water we go. Emma: Ok, three, two
- I jump - Emma: WAIT FOR ME! Many jumps later, it was time to go and have a shower and now I'm writing this blog, getting ready for school tomorrow. Ah, damn life, back to the daily grind. :D Saturday was a very exciting day for me and my friend and I went up to London to see new Scientist Live. It's basically a massive Science event where we just get to listen to various lectures and then look around some "stalls". So Siân came to my house and off we went to the train station to get on the train to London. After a long train journey, 2 tube lines and a shorter train journey, we arrived at the centre. We went straight away to our first lecture which was on life in the deepest parts of the ocean. (All of the photos are screenshotted from my story because I forgot to take any of my own) We learned some really cool stuff about the ocean. Mostly that life in the deepest ocean isn't actually that weird. Most of the fish look the same as "normal" fish apart from the fact they are 100% cuter. There were a lot of fish murder videos though. The next lecture we had was on black holes. It was interesting to see how the data was collected but I must admit I got very bored in this one - sorry! It was time for lunch which wasn't a great affair. I lined up at the River cottage place for ages and then when I got to the front, they announced that they'd run out of veggie food. So I had to settle with an "ok" salad instead. Their cake was good though! We wanted to go to a lecture on memories but we were doing this scanner thing instead where you could see the artery valves beating and so, by the time we turned up, it was impossible to get in. Instead we did an engineering lecture and I hate engineering. I was actually very surprised. It was really good and was talking about the way that cities could repair themselves. It turns out that the roads aren't actually solid which is crazy. Also, there are these bugs that are placed in walls and when a crack comes they eat their way out by pooping! Then they die, poor bugs. Then we went to a talk on robotics. Personally, I'm not a big fan of robotics but it was still so interesting. We learned about how robotics and humans should work side by side and also had a few live demos. One was a robot doing press ups and let me tell you that they could do it a lot better than me. Also, we saw a robot getting its balance right to go over difficult terrain. I was literally falling asleep in the last lectures but it was finally time to go home. I would highly recommend the New Scientist live and I hope to go next year. It was a great atmosphere and I loved all of the stands and seeing so much cool stuff. Next year, I'd try to have more time to look around the stalls as there was so much to see and not enough time to see it!
As you saw on Saturday, we went paddling and after that we went to a local castle. I love castles. I find it truly magical that people looked at that stone hundreds of years ago. I wonder: what thoughts were going through their minds? Were they looking at that stone as they died or did a small child have their first memories there. It just love it and I love how pretty they are, with plenty of chances for awesome photos! (Excuse my hair being quite puffy, it goes like that after it's been washed.) Let's go and explore! Goodbye castle, time for a lovely walk through the woods back to my Grannies.
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