Day trips: Dolphinarium -Harderwijk

 I’ve written about it before… are animal zoos or parks ethical? While it might not be the most ethical business, the greater good wins. Rescued animals or for example, dolphins all born in parks, breeding well and taken care of, is an education to children and others.  Otherwise, how would any European, Arab, American, Latino, Canadian,  Indian or Chinese ever see a giraffe, lion, rhino, snake etc? Or would it be only the elite whose families could afford to fly to the places where safaris would reveal lives that are not “extinct,” plainly due to absence in one’s own surroundings or subjective experience. Must we only experience animals as we do space? On tv or film and out of reach? What a poor unimaginable existence. It would be the same as having high tech Iphones but not using them because “5 g is bad.”  

The fear and resistance of some people to natural things such as animals or progress is over the top. The truth is always somewhere in the middle. As long as parks are not  set up or used as monetary models where animals suffer, we should celebrate the world we live in and its diversity. Not all countries have the space as Africa does for all to roam free but that doesn’t mean we should deny children the different facets of nature on offer in this world. 

Okay after that rant… the beauty of these gorgeous mammals. Slender, graceful, curious, intelligent, natural smiles, playful, as quick as lightning and purely inspiring! 

 Have a dolphin day!