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the baltic sea chronicles: the last days.

finally i'm coming to an end with my july vacation pictures. on these last days we visited another zoo, and a monastery, but otherwise i have left the camera untouched, to soak in the feeling of being by the sea. ending vacations like this: sitting at the beach, enjoying the beauty of water, clouds and the soft roaring of the sea - this is it. this is where my heart is buried.

there wasn't a lot to look at here, except of a little shop/house, the monastery buildings and a little park.

and this cat!


flamingo stone sculptures.

dream car.

monastery doors.

it was a small monastery, but old in age.

beautiful old tree.

duck house. we were invited to feed them :3


this zoo was very small, but it had a certain charm. i loved entering the nandu / llama compound or the goat petting zoo. i'm always a bit sad though... seeing wild animals caged in too small areas. it's good that zoos exist - for the learning experience - but it's also a curse, especially for the animals involved.

i think it's a canary bird.

oh, i love you little yellow-headed cockatiel.

this goat baby was so cute with it's rosy nose. and it had very soft fur. still a newbie to this world!

goats hanging around.


a coati sleeping in a tree. love the sea gull in the background.

harbor seals playing around in the water.

they have such beautiful faces.



pretty emu.

the lions were chilling out as well.

peeking through the grass.

such a sad face. 

camel! in a pretty surrounding.


a mara! strange creatures, a mixture between rabbit and deer? they are relatives of guinea pigs, though. guinea pigs with very long feet, actually.


they even had babies! 

smiling llama! i sat very closely to them. my respect was very huge, you know, spitting and stuff. but they behaved very well.

ah, big lumps of adorableness.


white-headed lemur baby! strangely enough it wasn't white headed. so it must be a different lemur species.

the eyes of a japanese macaque.


i think it's some kind of iguana.

some last impressions.




rainy sea day.


prawns of stone.




baby dino sipping alcohol. i found this toy on the street.


the last day was biding us good-bye with sun and clear water. it was hard to leave this place.

foot- and shoeprints.








one last time of wading around in the cool water. 

i miss the sea. words cannot describe what i feel thinking about it. it's just endless and pure adoration and there's some kind of peacefulness creeping into my heart. my otherwise fickle and scatterbrained heart.

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