It is a festival to celebrate the return of the migratory birds of prey or better known as raptors on their journey back to their breeding grounds in the northern hemisphere.
Thanks to Daddy (who likes this sort of outing), we are glad we joined in the fun, on 13th March, the Sunday the school holidays began.
The grounds in Ilham Resort has been set up with tents, with different companies either selling goods, or promoting their club. Monoculars and binoculars were at various booths where we can use to watch the raptors when they flew passed.
They were for all to use, and free!
We were actually a bit afraid the girls may break the thousands of dollars binoculars, but nobody seemed to be as worried as us.
It's not a guarentee that you may get to watch the raptors, but we were lucky, they were circlying above when we arrived, and appeared again later in the evening.
(That's what our camera could take. Well, Daddy thinks he should get a zoom lens for these kind of shot.)When the raptors appear, the real bird watchers whipped out their own equipment.
There were face/body painting as well, all contribution will go to MNS. Of course, we all, except Daddy, went for it.
Isn't the owl cute?
The event being held next to the sea, the girls were so eager to move on and play at the beach. It was 3pm, HOT! But nothing is going to deter them.
It was low tide, very suitable for the girls to splash about (we were not really prepared for the trip, it was kind of impromptu, that's why the girls didn't get changed into swimming costumes).
Zaria seemed to like getting
There were crabs to be found as well.
Besides the beach, we explored a near by hill, with a 20min climb, got us to the lighthouse in Tanjung Tuan.
View from the hill.
Although it was a hot day, we all had fun! This might just become our yearly event.
Muahahaha, raptor watch... I acutally thought it was another dinosaur event(raptor=verociraptor)! What a memorable day, I wish we could be there too!^-^
ReplyDeleteI will surely be bored to ......
ReplyDeleteDont fancy watching birds... handsome hunks by the beach can consider ;)
oh, yes, saw the promotional banner in Avillion PD last Feb. Too bad we miss it...
ReplyDeleteRe winter jacket at i city, ya, it's free of charge!^-^ But we still hv to wear suffficiently else will be freezed to death inside, lol!
ReplyDeleteHave agreat weekend!
Wow. Zaria actually look very much like Zara few years back. I thought the girl in fuschia dress was Zara then only i realize its the younger one. She's growing up zaramama.
ReplyDeletehmmm....... you guys seem having so much fun. I guess that's very good experience for kids. Let me know if you happen to have this kind of outdoor activities ya.......:)
ReplyDeleteZaria found treasure crabs? She's BRAVE!!
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