Swanning About Toronto’s Palace Pier Condo
November 25th, 2009 Categories: News Wire, Photographs
There was a really fun photograph yesterday in the National Post of swans rounded up in a couple of boats at Lake Alster in Hamburg, Germany. (Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a link to the photograph.)
My question: How do you load up a bevy of swans into boats? Not that I’m going to be doing that any time soon. Unless I didn’t get the memo.
So I Googled and found a video of the annual “loading up” event. Given their graceful reputation, it’s amusing to see their resistance. A little bit of a tussle, it would seem. Although given the special protection the City of Hamburg affords the swans, no worries about their safety.
Toronto’s Palace Pier Condo
And The Swans
Which reminded me that I have some photographs of swans taken this summer just across from Toronto’s Palace Pier and Palace Place condos, close to the QEW monument. The “pond” comes and goes; the last time I spun by it was drained and no swans in sight. But they’ll be back, and so will I!
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Beautiful photographs you got there, especially the 3rd one.
Also, I watched the swan-rounding-up video. It was amazing how they all sit obediently in the boat once they are pushed down. It looks like they are all on board a swan bus or something, about to go on a sight seeing tour!
-Heather
Heather,
I loved the video, too. A swan bus, that’s a great description.