Some monkeys for you today.

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A beautiful painting welcomed us to Monkey Town.
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A Chimpanzee mom and her baby and I couldn't see who the artist was.

On our way back from a meeting, there were 3 places in the same country road that we popped into for a few minutes. A farm restaurant for coffee, monkey town, where we discovered a reptile park and a garden center.
So I took some photos and hope that you will like this first post about the trip.
Come and look.

A mom laid sleeping with her baby on her back and a dad sat grooming her. One of their youngsters was hanging around at the left of the picture.
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What a funny way to drink water. This guy dipped his tail into the water and then sucked the water off the tip of his tail.
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This guy had lovely blue eyes and I missed a shot of his yawn.
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Some education here and did you know that human DNA and monkey DNA is almost the same?
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Tomorrow I will share a post of a reptile garden, with a stunning video of a snake being fed with a large white rat.
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Oh yes, there are many interesting places here and I shared a more detailed post about Monkey Town last year on Hive.
Today we didn't have the time to get more shots and I had to take what I could get. After the reptile post tomorrow in my second post I will share a post about the farm that we visited for coffee.

If ever you visit Cape town in south Africa, here's the link.
https://www.monkeys.co.za

And That's All Friends.

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.

Thank you kindly for visiting a post by @papilloncharity

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Very beautiful and meaningful painting 🤗

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Thank you and I also felt that painting talking to me.

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We have to protect them together...
Some humans disturb their homes, deforestation is something that makes them sad, and not a few also hunt them. Even in some countries (I don't mention it in order to maintain harmony) They make him as food 😭😭

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Nice pictures. I like the one of the mother lying down with a baby on her back and the father grooming her. That picture tells quite a story of love and caring.

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It is amazing that such a gem is so close to us. I have lived here for almost 15 years, drive past it so many times, but never actually visited. We go on with our daily lives and never actually live. Awesome photographs, especially the one drinking water with its tail! How funny 🤣. Looking into their eyes is just uncanny how similar it is to our own.

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So, you have never visitied? I am astounded and do me a favor, go and visit that place. And also their reptile garden, as I am sure that you will like it.
I heard that feeding time at the ape section is the best time for photogaphers.
Yes, they are very similar to us.

!BEER

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I know I know, very bad of me! It is funny how we neglect the places that are so close to us. Our friends from either Gauteng or overseas always shake their heads when we tell them that we visit places 100's of kilometers away but not the places close to us. I will do that, I will find out the feeding times and take some photographs. There are no excuses now.

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First thing that I do whenever we move anywhere is to explore all of the places in the immediate vincinity.
So yes, we have already been to many places of interest here and there is more to come.

It is the same in the charity fields, as all are eager to go to distant lands to do charity work, while the people in their own backyards suffer.
Charity starts at home.

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Charity starts at home.

If only more people understood this. Money also "travels" farther if it stays local. But I am sure this is a very controversial statement, as I get into various (intellectual) arguments with friends and family regarding that statement.

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What I have found is that it is more the excitement of visiting another place, more that the actual charity work why people go on the trips.
A study has found that short charity ventures into other countries actually cause damage to the recipients, as they get filled with hope that the charity work will continue, but then they never see the people again.

These things are always controversial and we have also had many stand up arguments about it.
One particular incident comes to mind, but this is not the place to discuss it.

Keep well.

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We will discuss it when we meet up again for your second batch of bread, this one on me!

That is so true and sad. What is the quote, hell is paved with good intentions? Philosophically, we can speculate if the intentions were good in the first place if it came from the need to "see the world".

Keep well and safe.

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Thank you and yes we will indeed meet again.

We had a great discussion todayv about good intentions and deeds and all of the contoversy that we experienced in our work. There was always a backlash to everything that we did and even still today.
But such is life.

!BEER (If they still work)

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I am not sure who said it, but if you do not create controversy you are not doing it right. Kicking up dust is certainly in the correct manner the most important thing to do. Going with the flow is only for dead fish.

Such is life yes, but it is a sign that you are doing the right thing.

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Exactly correct and whenever one does good deeds continously all of the guns are turned upon one.
But that's par for the course as they say in your golfing language.

Yes indeed and I like to rattle cages 🤣

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Rattle them cages and let them point the guns at you, just avoid being shot! You cannot really do any good from the grave. Metaphorically maybe, but physically not always.

Good one with the golfing metaphor 😁

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Hahaha, I have avoided them all thus far, touch wood. A bit tough at times as some even tried to get mec arrested via a dubious plot and we laughed at them. Nothing worse that laughing at a serious pompous person. The same as bullets hahahah.

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Oh, that sounds hectic! Yes, we cannot but laugh at serious situations (or at least when they are over). But we need to keep going on. Cannot stand to the side or turn around!

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All good as that took place a long time ago and I am still doing the same thing.
After a time, they fell into the same traps that they set for others.
Such is life my friend.

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I just had this conversation with my dad, albeit in a different context. It is so easy to show or point to mistakes others make, but when we do this we most certainly make the same mistakes. But we need to continually work on ourselves for if we better ourselves it will spill over to others.

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They say that what you hate in others is inside yourself.
Hurt people will draw other hurt people and likewise with happy people.

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That is so true. I feel that in so many situations. People who are vehemently for or against something, and so on, will always struggle the most with those things. As you said, that hate is internal and reflects like a mirror to the self.

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Exactly right, seek for what you see in others, good or bad. inside yourself, for so it is.

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But this might help you grow as well. Or, when you see the bad in others and realize it soon enough you can work on it. I saw an interview yesterday with an old man and the interviewee asked him what is some life lesson for younger generations. He answered: do not get mad at people and accept their differences.

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Yep, our motto is to first walk in another's shoes before you judge them.
That's why I like to stay in the background, as I am not an easy guy and many don't understand me.
But it also works in my favor, as then I have time to study people.
Now you know my secret.

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I like to call this "fermenting", or brewing. Using all the culinary terms. To stay in the background and think things over, to slow down. And as you said, to walk first in the shoes of others. Your secret is safe with me!

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Fermenting and brewing makes me think that your are a culinary master hehehe.
I do not have a suitable term for what I do, but the habit results from many lessons, both good and bad that I learned in life.
I find myself doing the same thing in my photographic life, as I can stand dead still for hours and then suddenly in a blink of an eye I can get my target on camera.
Marian calls me a statue hahaha.

!BEER

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That is perfect yes! I often lay in the garden like that statue observing as life continues to go about living around me. Waiting for that perfect shot that rarely comes. But the whole experience is worth every second.

Many lessons are learned when we take time right. Hastily moving on without time spent reflecting results in a possible lesson being learnt lost.

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Eeekk reptiles! Hehehe 🙃
But I like monkeys!

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Hahaha, reptiles are a part of nature my friend.
So after your shock of seeing some real mankiller snakes, you will rember the beauty of the monkeys and that will keep your sleep peaceful methinks.

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Really meaningful content, my friend. I wish more people would post such things.

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Thank you and I am sure that there must be some other posts like this around somewhere on Hive.

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Lovely monkey photos Zac, but it's unbelievable that you missed a shot 🤣

Yes, I knew that our DNA is almost the same as the DNA of apes - we are apes, you can see it everyday and everywhere 😉

!BEER and !WINE and !PIZZA - perfect 😃
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Hello, friend @papilloncharity

Loved your post.

I love animals and monkeys are one of my favorites.

If I were an animal, I would be a Chimpanzee hehe.

Big hugs

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