Monday

Hi
I got some new photos from yesterday which I will post first. My wife informs me I am putting them on backwards but I am sure you will work it out.
Today, as promised we visited Hollybank Treetops Park, on the other side of Launceston. Before leaving we stopped off at the new school that has opened on the Poatina property. The School, which is a campus of Capstone College, runs a Year 9 and 10 program for older students who have previously dropped out of school, due to varying difficult experiences they have had. We stopped off in Launceston to inspect the macaque display, where we made a number of observations vaguely related to Year 9 PDHPE outcomes. We finally reached Hollybank, where the students were challenged to confront their anxieties by completing the high level Zipline course.

Is he gonna brand me with that!

I tell you Soph, there's no worms in that load!

Then this willy willy appears and all Julies work goes flying, but she still cant take her eyes of Hugh!

Edenic!

More relaxed than Mrs Smedly and Azar!

Slumping

"Then for vengeance on the show, he ascended to the monkey's cage
and let the monkey's go" (A.B. Patterson. When Darcy rode the Mule)

Monkey School 101: First lesson Kiddies, is that lesser developed species of primates may at times practice primitive and embarrassing behaviours. But we must remember that they are only "Homo Sapiens"!

The power of Piagetian pedagodgy...

That's inappropriate.......

Some lesser species may copy the behavours of more developed species...

Young primates often model interesting group dynamics.

Feeding time....

In their natural environment......

May often observe behavours in groups, to be remodelled later

 Love hanging about in the treetops

 No fear of heights!

 Whole groups will ascend to great heights...even well fed old silverbacks will give it a go!