Beautiful Moments, Part TwoLast week I saw a helium balloon cross the road at the lights on a perfectly timed gust of wind. Today I saw four people trying to get into a GWiz electric car. They failed.
What's the best thing you've seen recently?
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chthonic, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 21:49)
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RanthamboreAll these stories about beautiful holiday moments remind me of a trip to Ranthambore park in India, famous for having (not many) lions.
We'd been out on the jeep fo a few hours and hadn't seen too much, just a lot of Sambar deer. In particular I found it hard to spot some of the smaller animals as I had left my glasses at home.
Towards the end of the trip someone said "look! a tiger" I looked up and grabbed my camera and there it was - it was some distance away but there it was, mostly hidden under some undergrowth. I joined the others loudly admiring its beauty, whilst looking through the camera "oh my God its beautiful isn't it! Wow, a real tiger in the wild, I can't believe it. So powerful!".
After a minute the excitement died down and the group started chattering about what we'd seen. The jeep started to move off, and I said "lets see if we can get a bit closer and take some more pictures!"
My wife said "what are you talking about, its gone". It transpired that everyone in the party had been admiring a tiger just metres behind the jeep, whereas I had been photographing a tree stump.
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browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 9:21,
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In the syle of Monty Python...A lion?
In India?
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatic_Lion
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 9:44,
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we, um, found the tiger skin in a bicycle shop in cairoand the owner wanted us to take it to dar es salaam...
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janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 9:51,
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I hopeyou did actually get to see a tiger for real! One of the most moving experiences of my life was seeing a wild tiger for the first time. They have a presence that other big cats simply don't have. Can't put my finger on it, but it's a very special cat.
As for seeing a tree stump instead of a big cat, my camera does that by itself!
Damn autofocus...
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