Pre–Christmas Butterfly Farm.
This week has been hectic! The poor & Intermittent wi-fi has meant that emails have piled up and I have decided to implement a strategy to cope, only sending the odd one or two.
That said we have also had plenty of action ashore. Esther is preparing for Christmas and also has a works function to dress up for on Thursday. With this in mind we have a girlie day shopping for house decorations, Christmas lights, evening shoes and matching bag, etc etc… In the heat we didn’t stress out but had leisurely coffee & cake to see us through ’til we remembered our rumbling tummies at 4.30 and had a late lunch.
Friday we went to the Neotropical Butterfly Park on the outskirts of town. On the way we noticed ’noise’ from the car and stopped to investigate. We didn’t find the cause but did find an oil leak so stopped for an oil top-up and verbal confirmation that we could continue to drive.
We arrived at the Butterfly Park just on lunchtime so had a snack and joined the tour. The Farm has been trading internationally for 16 years and has recently opened the Butterfly Park, which caters for ’Public Interest’ and ’Eco-Tourism’.
Allowing the public in means that the whole process of fulfilling the orders is seen to be clean tidy and efficient. They deal with a number of Butterfly species and each needs an enormous quantity of the specific host food. They have netted fields to produce this vegetation. The reason being that there are a number of escapees from the butterfly houses and these cavaliers would make straight for the ‘larder’ and decimate the supply for the others inside. The rest of the tour took us through the Reptile house where we saw very happy Pythons. Most were digesting their latest meal but others were snuggling up to procreate. When they give birth to live young these are then sold. I’m satisfied that the wild population is not being threatened. Another area held Tortoises (which the Dutch call Land Turtles) again this means that the wild Tortoise population is not threatened.
I’ll finish by telling of the trip home. The car rapidly went downhill making the most awful noises, which we tracked to the nearside shock absorber. We limped to Ottos’ workplace and left the car with the mechanic, while we took Ottos’ car home. Otto finished work and got a lift home, only to be called back for an emergency just as he was about to eat dinner! With only one car this meant that we were stranded ashore (in real comfort) overnight. What bliss!
Remember to look at Picasa after Christmas when I will have uploaded the images. - I hope!
This week has been hectic! The poor & Intermittent wi-fi has meant that emails have piled up and I have decided to implement a strategy to cope, only sending the odd one or two.
That said we have also had plenty of action ashore. Esther is preparing for Christmas and also has a works function to dress up for on Thursday. With this in mind we have a girlie day shopping for house decorations, Christmas lights, evening shoes and matching bag, etc etc… In the heat we didn’t stress out but had leisurely coffee & cake to see us through ’til we remembered our rumbling tummies at 4.30 and had a late lunch.
Friday we went to the Neotropical Butterfly Park on the outskirts of town. On the way we noticed ’noise’ from the car and stopped to investigate. We didn’t find the cause but did find an oil leak so stopped for an oil top-up and verbal confirmation that we could continue to drive.
We arrived at the Butterfly Park just on lunchtime so had a snack and joined the tour. The Farm has been trading internationally for 16 years and has recently opened the Butterfly Park, which caters for ’Public Interest’ and ’Eco-Tourism’.
Allowing the public in means that the whole process of fulfilling the orders is seen to be clean tidy and efficient. They deal with a number of Butterfly species and each needs an enormous quantity of the specific host food. They have netted fields to produce this vegetation. The reason being that there are a number of escapees from the butterfly houses and these cavaliers would make straight for the ‘larder’ and decimate the supply for the others inside. The rest of the tour took us through the Reptile house where we saw very happy Pythons. Most were digesting their latest meal but others were snuggling up to procreate. When they give birth to live young these are then sold. I’m satisfied that the wild population is not being threatened. Another area held Tortoises (which the Dutch call Land Turtles) again this means that the wild Tortoise population is not threatened.
I’ll finish by telling of the trip home. The car rapidly went downhill making the most awful noises, which we tracked to the nearside shock absorber. We limped to Ottos’ workplace and left the car with the mechanic, while we took Ottos’ car home. Otto finished work and got a lift home, only to be called back for an emergency just as he was about to eat dinner! With only one car this meant that we were stranded ashore (in real comfort) overnight. What bliss!
Remember to look at Picasa after Christmas when I will have uploaded the images. - I hope!
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