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aloysius_bear ([personal profile] aloysius_bear) wrote2012-09-01 04:49 pm

Life on the River

The humans and I just spent a fabulous week on the river between Oxford and Abingdon.

It was, in the vernacular of the younger humans on the trip, a holiday made of win!

We started out with an overnight stay in Oxford with my human's brother and sister-in-law, during which we visited the Pitt Rivers Museum.

I was glad to see a fellow bear guarding the entrance:

Ox Boat 1

There were other friendly (and furry) creatures to chat with inside:

Ox Boat 2

These fellows, on the other hand were neither friendly nor furry:

Ox Boat 3

I spent some time chilling with the great Charles Darwin:

Ox Boat 4

I'm not sure what he would have to say about this specimen we discovered outside:

Ox Boat 5

We then took a nostalgic trip to my human's alma mater...

Ox Boat 6

...where we reminisced about university days in the sunshine:

Ox Boat 7

We took out one of the college's punts for a pleasant afternoon on the river - though it seems as though my human's brother was less than impressed with the steering:

Ox Boat 8

We then joined up with the rest of our party and upgraded to a narrowboat for the second stage of the holiday:

Ox Boat 9

The weather was intermittently inclement, but we forged on:

Ox Boat 10

These "three men in a boat" seemed to have the right idea:

Ox Boat 11

Along the way, we picked up some alarmingly bright flowers and a new plant overlord, which we assiduously fed with insects throughout the rest of the trip:

Ox Boat 12

It was indeed a holiday of much win, hopefully to be repeated again next year!

Ox Boat 13

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