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mailmandan

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Ruby123 said:
Well its that time of the night. Goodnight all

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Oh that's right. Australia time zone. It must be around 11 PM there.
It's only 8:40 AM where I live. I would get serious jet lag visiting Australia. :giggle:
 
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Ruby123 said:
No 9.45pm here Mailman. I thought it was an hour later lol.
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Are you in the Australian Western Standard Time zone? I'm in the Central Standard Time zone in the US.
I probably should stop posting to you and let you go to sleep. :giggle:
 
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mailmandan said:
Are you in the Australian Western Standard Time zone? I'm in the Central Standard Time zone in the US.
I probably should stop posting to you and let you go to sleep. :giggle:
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I am in the west of Aus not the east. The east is two hours ahead so it is 12am there now but 10pm here.
 
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I just watched a very touching documentary on Ivory poaching in Africa - Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia,
Uganda, oh my goodness how tragic and sad the loss of these incredible animals for trinkets

 
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Magenta said:
I just watched a very touching documentary on Ivory poaching in Africa - Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia,
Uganda, oh my goodness how tragic and sad the loss of these incredible animals for trinkets
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The sad reality is that animals are slaughtered (not killed) in ways that will make you cry your eyes out. One of my clients is at the helm of rhino conservation in a certain part of SA and the stories and photos is gruesome and sad. They are doing good work but it will take a huge effort to stop poaching.
 
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GandalfTheWhite said:
The sad reality is that animals are slaughtered (not killed) in ways that will make you cry your eyes out. One of my clients is at the helm of rhino conservation in a certain part of SA and the stories and photos is gruesome and sad. They are doing good work but it will take a huge effort to stop poaching.
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I watched another documentary recently called My Octopus Teacher that was filmed in the coastal waters and kelp forests off South Africa. It was also very touching and sweet :D Have you seen it?
 
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Magenta said:
I watched another documentary recently called My Octopus Teacher that was filmed in the coastal waters and kelp forests off South Africa. It was also very touching and sweet :D Have you seen it?
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Was that the one where this guy had depression and he learnt how to dive and in the process made friends with an octopus that would come out of its cave and greet him. Unfortunately it got eaten by a shark :(
 
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Magenta said:
I watched another documentary recently called My Octopus Teacher that was filmed in the coastal waters and kelp forests off South Africa. It was also very touching and sweet :D Have you seen it?
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I saw that it is on Netflix. Didn't know what it is about :)
 
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GandalfTheWhite said:
I saw that it is on Netflix. Didn't know what it is about :)
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Ruby123 said:
Was that the one where this guy had depression and he learnt how to dive and in the process made friends with an octopus that would come out of its cave and greet him. Unfortunately it got eaten by a shark :(
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Yes....My Octopus Teacher follows South African filmmaker Craig Foster during the year he spent with a wild octopus while freediving off the coast of South Africa. He documented the highs and lows of the octopus’ life while developing a beautiful friendship with the wild animal. Craig said in the documentary that he needed a “radical change” in his life so he began going diving every day off the Western Cape of South Africa. While wandering through a kelp forest, he discovered an octopus and became fascinated with the animal.

By the end of the movie when the shark gets the octopus, she's already at the end of her life having just mated and laid hundreds of thousands of eggs. It is sad at that point but her life is already basically over and she is just waiting to die. The movie is very sweet and well worth watching in spite of that, and the photography is pretty awesome too :)
 
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