One of our favourite aspects of the Show is the animals. We love seeing the animals. Here are some of the piggies, The Three Little Pigs, actually:
The Three Little Pigs were very friendly and stuck their noses eagerly at this little boy. Maybe he just smelled like food, I don’t know.
These are two snoozing Berkshire pigs (yep, the same breed as Gordon Ramsay reared on Season 2 of The F Word).
At feeding time, these little piggies went absolutely crazy!
We also saw alpacas… This one in the first photo just staaaaared at me, while the one in the second photo kept on munchin’, quite unperturbed.
We saw crayfish and marron (Jac loooooooooooooves marron! I haven’t eaten much shellfish in my lifetime)…
…and different kinds of fish. The third photo below is a Port Jackson shark. It was quite funny, actually, because a girl was trying to take a photo of it as it swam around in circles – she kept sticking her camera really close to the surface of the water. He boyfriend kept saying, “Careful! The shark might get you!” She just laughed and kept taking photos… until the shark actually poked its nose right out of the water! She jumped back and squealed. And so her series of Port Jackson shark close-up photos came to an abrupt end. :) An old man looking at the shark said to his wife, “Hey, you feel like having fish and chips for lunch?” Hahahaa.
We also saw baby emus. I wanted to take a photo of the mother emu, but she looked pretty mean and gave me the evil eye, and I wasn’t about to take her on.
I’m getting to the food, really!
I'm TFP, a food blogger from Perth, Western Australia.
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Aww those piglets are adorable!!
Awww, so cute! (except the marron and fish)
Animals are my favourite part of the show. We aren’t going this year though have gone two years in a row already.
Might go to the pet expo coming up in November though!
Thanks for the posts, and am looking forward to the food one too!
I have linked to them from my post about the Royal Show at Enjoy Perth, hope that’s ok!
See here:
http://www.enjoyperth.net/2006/08/perth-royal-show-2006/
:)
Simone
Katie, they really were sweet little things, really friendly.
Simone,
Oooh, pet expo! Do you know when exactly that will be? Our plan is to go to the Royal Show only every five years or so. We end up spending so much money it’s not funny.
No worries at all, link away! Hope you like the food post.
Pet Xpo – PCEC – 17 to 19 November
http://www.petxpo.com.au/perth/index.php
And Wild about Animals Expo the week before at Claremont Showgrounds. Don’t have any details for this yet, so at the moment the Pet Xpo sounds best.
Loved the food post, sooo jealous! I had my first dagwood dog and corn on a cob there last year, mmmmm! We always enjoy the baked spuds too (though not the one with coleslaw!)
The alpaca are so CUTE!
Are they baby?
I didnt’ think they had such round heads.
Simone,
Thanks for the Pet Xpo link. I’ll show Jac.
I plan to go to the Show again in 5 years’ time, but I don’t know if I can wait that long before my next HOT BUTTERED CORN! :)
plume,
the munching alpaca might be a youngster, but I’m pretty sure the other one (Whatchoo lookin’ at?) was an adult. But then I’m no alpaca expert. They DO have cute round heads, don’t they? All woolly and cushiony.
I remember, when I was younger, I met an alpaca at a farm, and it spat on me. My brother used to call them eyepatchers. I love them.
The emus are gorgeous too.
Kate, I was very conscious of being spat on because on a previous season of The Amazing Race a guy got spat on in the face by a grumpy alpaca (but he was trying to force it to move when it didn’t want to). Maybe if I’d gotten too close with the camera I might’ve copped it. They did watch my every move very carefully.