Another nice morning, summer appears to have returned. Shamina and I went for a walk to the local shopping centre, 1km away. Overhead, high cloud was developing, coming only from the contrails of aircraft flying over Calgary in jut about every direction.
Not long after arriving back, Naushad said “let’s go” and we were off to the Calgary Zoo. We drove there and parked in the large car park, and walked down to the ticket booths, and then trough a large tunnel under the motorway and C-Train line. Part way through the tunnel is the C-Train station that serves the Zoo, with another smaller ticket booth for customers off the train. The zoo is divided into sections, including Canada, Africa, Eurasia and a dinosaur area (did not compare with the Dinosaur Museum), that tries to show how the land and environment has changed in Canada over many millions of years.
A section of the zoo is on an island in the Bow River and there are two bridges to and from the main part of the zoo. Animals included moose, deer, big horn sheep, lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes, zebras, hippopotamus, bears (brown, cinnamon, black and a sloth bear), snakes, fish, and a lot of birds, including owls, eagles, swans, and in the Australian section, three masked lapwing (the new name for the now common New Zealand bird spur-winged plover).
Photography was difficult, especially if you did not want to show bars or netting, and in some cases (the big cats and bears), the animals were behind two layers of barriers, making it more difficult still.
Not long after arriving back, Naushad said “let’s go” and we were off to the Calgary Zoo. We drove there and parked in the large car park, and walked down to the ticket booths, and then trough a large tunnel under the motorway and C-Train line. Part way through the tunnel is the C-Train station that serves the Zoo, with another smaller ticket booth for customers off the train. The zoo is divided into sections, including Canada, Africa, Eurasia and a dinosaur area (did not compare with the Dinosaur Museum), that tries to show how the land and environment has changed in Canada over many millions of years.
A section of the zoo is on an island in the Bow River and there are two bridges to and from the main part of the zoo. Animals included moose, deer, big horn sheep, lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes, zebras, hippopotamus, bears (brown, cinnamon, black and a sloth bear), snakes, fish, and a lot of birds, including owls, eagles, swans, and in the Australian section, three masked lapwing (the new name for the now common New Zealand bird spur-winged plover).
Photography was difficult, especially if you did not want to show bars or netting, and in some cases (the big cats and bears), the animals were behind two layers of barriers, making it more difficult still.
After nearly four hours, we had finally seen the lot and returned to the car. The temperature was hot, with the car thermometer reading an outside temperature of 28 C.
We returned to Falconridge and relaxed. A big build up of cumu;o nimbus (CB) cloud was out to the east and this caused some changes to flight plans of planes arriving and leaving Calgary International. At one point a KLM Boeing B777 or Airbus A300 took off from the short cross runway on it’s way back to Europe, and later a Fedex freighter also took off heading east or back to America. Occasional claps of distant thunder could be heard.
We returned to Falconridge and relaxed. A big build up of cumu;o nimbus (CB) cloud was out to the east and this caused some changes to flight plans of planes arriving and leaving Calgary International. At one point a KLM Boeing B777 or Airbus A300 took off from the short cross runway on it’s way back to Europe, and later a Fedex freighter also took off heading east or back to America. Occasional claps of distant thunder could be heard.
Naushad and the boys headed out to soccer practice, and Rozi said that Shamina and her were going to go for a walk to Prairie Winds Park (about 2km away). I went with them, and walked to the top of a hill (looks to be man made), and it is directly in line with the short runway at the airport. The sun was about to set, but no planes were departing off runway 28 (towards me), although a few were arriving to this runway from the west.
We returned home after 10:00pm for dinner, and I was in bed asleep before 11:30pm.
We returned home after 10:00pm for dinner, and I was in bed asleep before 11:30pm.
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