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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The Magic of Life Butterfly House in Aberystwyth

Whilst in Wales we visited several places, but one place that has stayed in our hearts was The Magic Of Life Butterfly House.

We were lucky enough to arrive just after some art students who were being shown some of the fabulous bugs that resided in the reception area.

This amazing millipede, started out all curled up and unfurled to show his many, many little legs, my son was in complete awe.


Giant Millepede
Next we got to see this fabulous Goliath beetle, it is fair to say had this taken off I would have been out of there like a shot. According to Neil the owner of The Magic of Life it flies and sounds somewhat like a drunk motorcycle.

Goliath Beetle
You can't really tell how beautiful this is but the horse head grasshopper, really wonderful creature and well worth a google to see what the face actually looks like.

Horse Head Grasshopper
The many butterflies that flew around really wowed us, we got to see the caterpillars, pupa and then the butterflies they transform into, it was amazing to learn that after about 3 months of growing into a beautiful butterfly they only live for a few weeks.








Glasswing
This owl butterfly seemed to become attached to my husband and spent a good half an hour clinging to his hand.

Owl Butterfly
Finally as we walked out we got to see these beautiful little, well actually huge silk moth caterpillars.


Reading some of the reviews on Trip Advisor you may be put off, a few people mention how 'expensive' it is. However, I think this is subjective, we spent about an hour and half in there and my son got to do some brilliant drawings using pencils and paper the very kind students lent him as well as talking to Neil the owner who was knowledgeable and took the time to listen to him.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Autumn Beach Fun

This weekend saw us visit Wales for the weekend, I was all geared up for torrential rain evey day but it actually turned out to be lovely with us only getting rained on at night and a bit in the morning first thing.

The beaches in Wales are lovely anyway and so the fun didn't need to stop just because it wasn't 25 degrees with no wind.

Instead as the wind wipped around us we got to run and splash in our wellies, spot the leaves as they washed up on the beach and generally enjoy the fresh air.

Running down the very windy beach opposite the very gorgeous Barmouth.


I do love the sand dunes round here, bring back memories of when I was little and we used to walk from the caravan to the beach through them.


 Lots of leaves washing up on the beach, very pretty.


Checking out the sea weed, super squigdy.


My daughter loves splashing, she is a lot like her favourite TV piggy in that respect.


Making an 'invention' in the sand, really lovely to watch them digging, this was in the very gorgeous Borth.



It was weird to be splashing in the sea with wellies on, but I think it went down very well.


I am linking up this week with Country Kids from Coombe Mill.

Country Kids from Coombe Mill Family Farm Holidays Cornwall