Walking with Wolves
Another 8th Day outing, but this time a bit more “low impact”. I went out to the UK Wolf Conservation Trust for an afternoon of hiking and wolf-on-human interaction. I was really excited about it at first, but then shortly before going out there they sent out a lengthy list of “do not do’s”. One of the first, and more worrying was this little gem:
KEEP ONE HAND FREE (NEAR YOUR FACE) AT ALL TIMES WHEN STROKING A WOLF
Also, as someone who likes to carry fairly expensive camera equipment with him at all times, this rule was a bit unnerving:
YOU MAY TAKE PICTURES OF THE WOLVES, BUT IF THE WOLF GETS HOLD OF YOUR CAMERA WE CANNOT GET IT BACK FOR YOU
There were also a lot of rules about not wearing leather or anything fur lined, which all seemed to make perfect sense to me but I wasn’t sure how to take that camera one. In the end, I decided to take as big a camera as possible and affix the largest lens I own in hopes that they’d be more interested in easier to grab, smaller cameras and not see mine as a sort of challange.
It all worked out for the best and nobody that I know of was left cameraless at the end of the day, and I managed to get a few decent shots as well.
As usual, there’s more in the gallery.