Camping in the Isle of Wight - Part 2

So, the first half of the week has been pretty horrendous in terms of the weather.  One poor family had to salvage what they could from their tent and pack it into their car and then drive across the Island to find a camping and outdoor retailer and buy a new tent as the tent they had was completely wrecked by the wind and rain.  They, like us, are booked on a particular ferry to go home, the ferries are really busy at this time of year so it will very difficult to change the booking and they are determined to make the most of their holiday for their kids. Thankfully, whilst it was very noisy in our tent, as everything was rattling and flapping in the wind, we are still in one piece and its looking like the weather is changing for the better.

Thursday, and we were off to West Wight Alpacas & Llamas for a visit.  They don't just have Alpacas and Llamas though and we didn't book and pay to walk the Alpacas but we had a great day.  There were a few baby goats wondering around, they're too small to be kept in by the fences, they just squeeze themselves through the gaps to play with everyone.

Chickens and fowl of all kinds.  I am fascinated by the colouration and patterns of the feathers, such as the middle row far right, that golden brown with a light stripe down the centre and dark brown edging is just absolutely beautiful and the colours and striking contrast on the cockerel in the top two photos is amazing. Nature is a wonderful designer.

The sheep, different kinds but I have a soft spot for the Wensleydale, that's the long wool breed in the two photos on the left and the bottom centre.

Alpacas and a close up of the face.  There is something fascinating about their huge eyes and their expressions that I just can't stop looking at their faces.

Alpacas and Llamas.  Can you tell the difference.  Obvious when you see them side by side as Llamas are bigger, their coats are different and they have huge curvey banana ears.  That's a baby Llama on the middle row, left hand side and his mother is in the centre.  The photo in the middle on the bottom row has a sad ending.  That is an alpaca giving birth and we went to get help.  Turns out she had been in labour for several hours but still not given birth.  Before we left we found out that they had to intervene and sadly the baby was already dead.

This last set of photos shows a horse/pony and donkeys.

We had a lovely time and didn't want to leave, we could have walked around again but we couldn't stay there all day, we had other things we wanted to do whilst the weather was nice and we didn't have much time left of our holiday.