only music saves: June 2012

hello my people! I know, I know - I went missing a bit. I apologise you all, but I had crazy time and somehow I didn't have a time to come here and write something new - SORRY.
I'm here and now and I'm so glad because of it :)

guess, where I was... yes, you're right!

last week I went to the ZOO in Gdańsk... you're wrong - I'm not too old to do it, to go to the ZOO, because we all are children inside, always. so I had really great time there and I took sooooo many pics and I recorded a few vids.

ok, so maybe for the beginning, a few words about this place.

Gdańsk Zoo is one of the biggest zoological gardens in Poland. it's an attractive place for both recreation and education and it is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists and Gdańsk citizens every year. the idea to establish a zoological garden in Oliwa first appeared in late 1940s, and it was warmly supported by the citizens of Gdańsk. the enthusiasm of people was so great that although the city's authorities were at first reluctant to support the project, the official permission to establish a zoological park was given in 1953. the park and forest complex of 100 ha located near the centre of Oliwa in the Valley of the Forest Mill (Dolina Leśnego Młyna) was chosen for this purpose. this scenic area, with Rynaszewski stream flowing across, is also called the Valley of Bushy Mills (Dolina Krzaczastych Młynów). it's the very heart of the Tri-City Landscape Park, characterised by movie-like landscape. as an aside, numerous Polish nature films have been shot in Oliwa Zoo. this location was chosen due to its outstanding topographic conditions and the mild microclimate of the valley, where from the end of the 19th century up to 1945 a guest-house for patients with respiratory problems and rheumatism was operating. the main building of the guest-house, farm buildings and the old water-mill with the miller's manor erected in the first half of the 19th century, were adapted to the needs of the zoological garden. Gdańsk Zoo was formally opened on 1 May 1945. the first inhabitants of the Zoo were small animals donated by citizens of Tri-city: rabbits, guinea pigs, foxes, small deer, pheasants, as well as monkeys and parrots - gifts from sailors. in May 1954 Oliwa Zoo welcomed its first European bison called Puszczan, and in June that year - a gift from Warsaw zoological garden - a couple of wolfs: Misio and Łstka, parents of numerous offspring, which may be found in many animal collections all over the world. since 1991, the collection of animals in Oliwa Zoo is regularly extended, gaining many rare species listed as threatened: pygmy hippopotamuses, orangutans, maned wolfs, Arabian oryxes, Somalian asses, anoas, Javan lutungs, colobus monkeys, jackass penguins and mandrills. in return for quarantining 50 Bactrian camels from Kazakhstan, the Zoo received a herd of dromedaries and Bactrian camels, llamas, flamingos and pelicans.

on 120 hectares live many animals coming from all continents. you can find here animals, which populations at large already don't exist actually.

I'm sure I will go there again soon. maybe next month ;)

so welcome to the jungle!