Things we've been doing

Don't say I never get in front of the camera! As we don't have a scanner etc handy at the moment I was reduced to taking a photograph with my phone of a photograph taken by the resident photographer at the 'Pet Porpoise Pool' in Coffs Harbour, which we visited last Tuesday, I think (the date on the image is the date I took the photo of the photo, if you see what I mean).

I like the seal's look, especially the rolling eye...

It was fun to visit; I don't really approve of captive dolphins, but some of the residents (Bucky, for example) have been there for decades and you couldn't exactly release them into the wild and expect them to survive, and they looked as if they enjoyed themselves so far as I could tell... Anyway, in addition to being able to 'interact' with the dolphins during the show, you can also feed them, feed little fairy penguins and - if you're lucky! - be 'kissed' by a seal! Ella really wanted to do it, but I think several mentions of bad fishy breath were what made her wriggle away from the seal at the last moment, so Mummy got the herring halitosis instead. It wasn't so bad - in fact, I'd go so far as to say that it is one of the better photos of me in recent months!