Friday Night Photos Safari Park Edition

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 5:00pm

Welcome to Friday Night Photos everyone. Your once a week break from the daily madness of the crazy world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music, or whatever else you find of interest that helps you escape the madness.

We got a little bit of rain last night and there's heavy mist as I'm writing this, this morning . It's supposed to be partly sunny and mild tomorrow through Monday and then maybe a slight chance of rain for the rest of next week. We shall see. I topped off the car while I was out grocery shopping earlier this morning. The price has been holding steady at $4.29 a gal for the last few weeks. As for groceries, eggs were $13.49 for 1 1/2 doz. $5 for 1 lb of ground beef and $2.50 for a 4oz can of tuna. Hope things are a little more affordable in your neck of the woods.

Some of our favorite friends at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 6:30pm

Thanks for sharing your critters

Like the horns section

Images from a local shooter ..

Sunst over the Sakonnet River

Detail of stone wall

local legend has it the natives moved the rocks from the fields to clear the land for
settlers farming and stacked them along the perimeter. still standing

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 6:59pm

Hi, Q

@QMS
The horn section. I like that.
Beautiful sunset shot. I love the colors. Great looking stone wall. I wonder how long it took to build?

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 7:14pm

about 400 years

@Socialprogressive

give or take a few restacks, falling trees, crazy oxen driving tractors
and occasional drunk drivers. It is a geologists wet dream. Mostly
granite and quartz, some slate; lots of lichen and moss for color.
Cheers!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 7:50pm

WOW!

@QMS
400 years to put the jigsaw puzzle together.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 7:24pm

Hi Q

@QMS

You live in a very beautiful part of the world.

I'm pretty sure the stones were moved to cultivate land and define borders, natives or immigrant farmers, I don't know? The walls, whoever built them though, are a pleasure to see in their environment of old trees, buildings and gardens. It has lots of character.

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 7:17pm

Hi Social

Thanks for taking us on safari with you. One question, are the gorilla's meals delivered by UPS?

Some safari music ...

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 8:05pm

Hi, Janis

@janis b
Not UPS, FedEx. Food delivered in paper bags is one of the many different ways the keepers use to make the gorillas work to get to their food.
I like the song. I don't know what they're singing about but the music is really upbeat.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 8:41pm

We don't want any lazy gorillas

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or frustrated ones. I suppose they are more dextrous than we are, but it hardly looks that way. They need scissors!

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 7:31pm

Good evening all

Raindrops and sunspots ...

Unfortunately, we have had concerningly little rain in almost 2 months. If you have any rain songs that might help, please send them ; ).

Enjoy the weekend

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 8:16pm

Cool photo, Janis

@janis b
I hope you get some rain soon. If it gets real bad do what I call the paleface rain dance, wash your car. There's something about a newly washed car that seems to attract rain.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 8:38pm

I might try both colour rain dances

@Socialprogressive

I'll let you know if anything works : )

What, no rain dance music?

Submitted by QMS on Sat, 02/08/2025 - 12:10am

Your photo of the bush is almost mystical

@janis b

Try playing this one!

while waxxing your car ..

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 10:38pm

Hey J!

@janis b Hi Janis!

Grat pic Janis! Nature IS art!

be well!

happy f stops!

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 10:18pm

Hi pixelators

Hi all, Hey SP!

Great photos SP! Bunch of awesome beasties. Love those Oryx. So on the second photo, the one with heads at both ends... Which way was it going?

Thanks for the trip to Africa!

back in a phlash with a photo......

GREAT work SP!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 11:32pm

Hi, dystopian

@dystopian
Which way was the two headed critter going? you ask. I believe it was going towards the eight legged giraffe in the fourth photo.

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 10:35pm

shells again

Hi all,

A few more shell shots.

First the art pic.

Breaking news flash!

nature IS art

We'll get back to that later...

This tropical snail is about 3" across, and tall, about a half-poud, and fairly pearlescent.

Chambered Nautilus

Tropical Barnacle - the cells are over an inch across the opening and about 2-2.5" deep,

Didja figger out the first pic yet?

Pillow Dollar. A tropical type of Sand Dollar that is big and thick. This one over 4" across and 1.5" thick. Very thick strong exoskeleton, not brittle like ou thin wafers.

gotta fly,

be well all!

happy trails!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 11:41pm

The close-up

@dystopian
of the Pillow Dollar is great. Another excellent example of patterns and textures in nature. How much of that half-pound tropical snail is snail, and how much is shell?

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Submitted by usefewersyllables on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 11:40pm

My wife and I

did the Roar and Snore there probably 25 years ago. We brought our sleeping bags, and overnighted in tents they provided, bedded down between the lions and the elephants. In the morning we then had a nice camp breakfast, and access to the park for two hours before it opened. Just us and the staff.

Sunrise there is magical. I’m glad that we did it, and I doubt that they do any more…

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 11:50pm

Hi, ufs

@usefewersyllables
Glad you had a memorable trip to the Safari Park. They still do the Roar and Snore and the tents are still between the lions and elephants.

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Submitted by usefewersyllables on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 11:53pm

Cool.

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It boggles my mind that they can still do it. I’d have figured that they were looking under every oryx for a terrorist…

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