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Once again Izzie rarely slinks much in Cyberia lately.

When not concentrating on keeping the Lair chaos and clutter free, then I'm busy being a culture vulture bingeing on an assortment of freak shows.

Yes. It's Fringe Festival time again.

On Tuesday I pigged out and saw 2 shows. The second one was a burlesque tribute to Tim Burton featuring an assortment of creatures.

The corpse bride, Jack Skellington and a very scary skinny Alice.

I had no idea that Mr Burton had anything to do with Batman. But the Joker turned up and proceeded to cause all sorts of chaos and mayhem.

Especially putting on clothes instead of taking them off. It was supposed to be a burlesque show after all.

But of course, the whole thing was a devious BOOBY trap. Quite literally.

I've clocked up 6 shows in one week but won't be going to my next one until Saturday.

"A Night at the Opera" a tribute show to Queen. But because it's at a gay night club, not quite sure if it's boylesque rather than burlesque.


Today I did something completely different and visited a gorgeous place called Penguin Island. Problem is, there never seems to be any penguins there. Unless they are all wearing invisibility suits.

But there are 2 very big pelican nesting grounds which are amazing.
They really should rename the place Pelican Island.
You need to make quite an effort not to see them.

At least that way, most people can see so many amazing critters without feeling cheated that they didn't see any penguins.

I especially liked how I didn't even have to go looking for bobtail lizards. They came slinking to me. Probably because I had dropped some crumbs when eating my baguette and the little critters were hoping for a bit of free lunch.

Unfortunately it was a bit too windy to go to some of the wildest bits of the island. But I'll definitely get there earlier next time and will bring binoculars so I can get a better view of the pelicans nesting.

Tomorrow I will be planting a bunch of leaf babies for the local birds.

No pelicans but lots of parrots.

Date: 2024-01-25 08:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ozfille
Perhaps the penguins are out to sea, fishing during the day and only come back in the evening. Spring time might be better in that I assume at least one penguin has to be around to sit on eggs and look after the tiny chicks. What type of penguin? I assume it is the Little Penguin. I still prefer it's old name Fairy Penguin.

Date: 2024-01-26 07:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] catness
Upon reading the title, I thought for a moment that you ditched your ancient Mac and bought a cheap computer with Linux :) But I guess it's not happening...

Funny, I was never interested in penguins until getting into Linux and learning that penguin is a Linux mascot. Now I find them very cute. But there's not a lot of opportunities to observe them IRL. Last time I saw penguins in a bar in Tokyo. It was disappointing, though; there were just 3 penguins and they were behind the glass wall, although I don't know what I was expecting, it's not possible to interact with penguins like with cats, snakes and other creatures in the themed animal cafes.

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