Elephants in the Hotel 

The Elephants in the Room: Watch a Herd Walk through a Hotel

Why go on a safari when you can watch wildlife right from the comfort of your hotel?

Having big, exotic animals come inside probably wasn't the plan when the Mfuwe Lodge was built in Zambia in 1998, but that’s what wound up happening. The lodge surrounds a mango grove that a local group of elephants likes to feed on and sits on the path they traditionally used to get to it.

When Mfuwe opened for business, the elephants made it clear they had no intention of changing their route. They walked in like they owned the place, shuffled through the lobby and out into the courtyard to feast on mangoes.

The spectacle, was no doubt concerning to whoever was working the reception desk the first time it happened. It has become one of the lodge’s main draws, and attracts crowds of tourists every year. According to the lodge, the group that makes the annual stroll through the lobby includes three generations of one elephant family, including their matriarch “Wonky Tusk” and the young “Lord Wellington,” who was born on the lodge grounds in 2009.

In 2014 Wildlife cameraman Nathan Pilcher went to Mfuwe to see the elephants for himself, and you can watch his short movie by clicking the following link! --- December 14, 2015.

The Elephants that came to dinner|Mfuwe Lodge, Zambia

Nice Sky This Morning

Photos from Benderson Park, Sarasota, Florida.

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Illinois Windmills

The Bartel Windmill ca 1890

An authentic Dutch Windmill functioned for many years in Tinley Park. 

It was located on Oak Park Avenue and 171st Street. It was destroyed in 1911.

 

Peotone Windmill

Windmills very similar in shape and size to the Tinley Park Windmill were built by the same builders, Bartel of Kankakee. The Mill in Peotone, IL is 3 blocks east of their historic downtown in a neighborhood.

Fabyan Windmill in Kane County

The Fabyan Windmill in the Kane County Forest Preserves north of Aurora on Highway 27 east of the Fox River is another example. It was also built by the builders of the Tinley Park Windmill.

Windmill in Holland, Michigan

The City of Holland, Michigan developed a Windmill as a tourist attraction.




  

New Dutch Windmill in Fulton, 

Illinois on the Mississippi River

http://www.illinoiswindmills.org/index_files/Tinleypark.htm

http://www.peotone.com/rathjemill/index.htm

http://windmilltinleypark.blogspot.com/

Human Population

Exelon - $1 billion electrical generating facility planned in Grundy County, Illinois

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I am on a Seafood Diet........ I Seefood, and I eat it.

I am on a Seafood Diet........  


                         I Seefood, and I eat it.

Chicago Is Winning the Battle for the Executive Headquarters

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