Common Gallinule
Location: J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Wildlife Drive, Sanibel Island, Florida, United States of America
Chaotic Cleanse This Tricolored Heron bathed with such enthusiasm that water was sprayed everywhere, and ripples appeared across the otherwise still wetlands.
J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Wildlife Drive, Sanibel Island, Florida, United States of America
Willi Forst German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6069/2, 1931-1932. Photo: Atelier Binder, Berlin.
The Austrian actor Willi Forst (1903-1980) was a darling of the German-speaking public. He was also one of the most significant directors, producers, writers and stars of the Wiener Filme, the light Viennese musical comedies of the 1930s. On stage, he played in operettas and revues but also worked with Erwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt.
In 1903, Willi (also written as Willy) Forst was born Wilhelm Anton Frohs in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria). At age 16, he began his career as an actor on the provincial stages in Austria–Hungary and the German Empire. He was a featured performer in the post-World War I operetta theatres of Vienna and Berlin. He also worked with famous directors like Erwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt. His film debut was in the Austrian film Der Wegweiser/The Signpost (Hans Kottow, 1920). His first major screen roles were opposite Marlene Dietrich in the silent films Café Elektric/Cafe Electric (Gustav Ucicky, 1927) and Gefahren der Brautzeit/Dangers of the Engagement Period (Fred Sauer, 1929).
Willi Forst made his sound and singing film debut in Atlantik/Titanic (Ewald André Dupont, 1929) and soon became known for his distinctive velvety voice and 'charming Viennese' characters. After Zwei Herzen im 3/4 Takt/Two Hearts in Waltz Time (Géza von Bolváry, 1930), he played six more times under the direction of Géza von Bolváry. Most of these successes were written by Walter Reisch, and so were also Ein blonder Traum/A Blonde's Dream (Paul Martin, 1932) with Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch, and Der Prinz von Arkadien/The Prince from Arcadien (Karl Hartl, 1932) with Liane Haid. Forst considered the best learning experience for his future role as director, So ein Mädel vergisst man nicht/Unforgettable Girl (1933) directed by expressionist film actor-turned-director Fritz Kortner.
Willi Forst developed the genre of the Wiener Filme with writer Walter Reisch in the 1930s, beginning with the Franz Schubert melodrama Leise flehen meine Lieder/Lover Divine (Willi Forst, 1933). He followed it with the hit Maskerade/Masquerade in Vienna (Willi Forst, 1934), which launched his fame as a significant director and made an instant star of Paula Wessely. For Mazurka (Willi Forst, 1935), he lured Pola Negri back from Hollywood. From the mid-1930s he also recorded many records, largely of sentimental Viennese songs, for the Odeon Records label owned by Carl Lindström AG. He founded his own film company, Willi Forst-Film, in 1937. His best-known film would be the elegant satire Bel Ami (Willi Forst, 1939) based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant. He also played the title role, which would be his alter ego from then on.
Following the annexation of Austria in 1938, Willi Forst was much courted by the Nazis. He succeeded in avoiding overt political statements, concentrating entirely on the light entertainment for which he was famous and which was much in demand during the war. During the seven years of National Socialist rule in Austria, he only made four films, none of them political. His most important work was his Wien-Film trilogy: Operette/Operetta (Willi Forst, 1940), Wiener Blut/Vienna Blood (Willi Forst, 1942), and Wiener Mädeln/Vienna Beauties (Willi Forst, begun in 1944, but not completed until 1949). After the war, he had comparatively little success, except for the film Die Sünderin/The Sinner (Willi Forst, 1951) starring Hildegard Knef and Gustav Fröhlich. The frank treatment of social and sexual mores in Germany during and after the war and a modest nude scene of Knef created a furor at the release, but the film went on to attract an audience of seven million people. Willi Forst's last film was the comedy Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume/Vienna, City of My Dreams (Willi Forst, 1957), with Adrian Hoven and Erika Remberg. Then Willi Forst retired from the film world, acknowledging that his style was no longer in demand. After the death of his wife in 1973, he lived a reclusive life in the Swiss canton of Tessin. He died of cancer in Vienna in 1980 and is buried in Neustift am Walde. At Senses of Cinema, professor Robert von Dassanowsky writes that Forst is "one of Austrian and Central European cinema's greatest filmmakers and influential industry figures, whose lack of presence in the international film 'canon' of important directors today is one more casualty from the negligence that has greeted Austrian cinema since the collapse of its commercial film industry in the 1960s."
Sources: Robert von Dassanowsky (Senses of Cinema), Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), Filmportal.de, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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(2023) Mini Sweets Deluxe Kellogg's Lil Baby SnapBOX DATE: 2023
MANUFACTURER: M.G.A.
DOLLS IN PACK: Grrreat Gal, Lovely Loops, Lil Baby Snap, Lil Baby Pop, Lil Baby Crackle
BODY TYPE: No date
HEAD MOLD: No date
PERSONAL FUN FACT: I have to hand it to M.G.A., using Lils to capture the Rice Krispies characters was genius. It makes them feel like a cohesive set--often times Lils are packaged in pairs to represent certain things (like there were two made for Mike and Ike candies). The one downside is that their accessories are way too large for them. Such is always the case with Lils. Their pieces are actually meant for tots to wear. I think it would have been SO much cuter if Lil Baby Snap had a molded chef hat on. The other Kellogg's dolls from this set represent different cereal brands, so this hat really doesn't work with them. Nor would it fit over their hairstyles anyways. This little guy is so darling--I can't stand how ridiculously cute his tongue is! I never appreciated just how charming the Lils were until I snagged this set on sale for $9, at my local Walmart. That's why I love in person shopping still, rather than only buying dollies online. Sometimes there are sets I'd never think to look for on the internet, that turn up on sale in person. This set is JUST as amazing as my other Mini Sweets Deluxe packs!
(2023) Mini Sweets Deluxe Kellogg's Lovely LoopsBOX DATE: 2023
MANUFACTURER: M.G.A.
DOLLS IN PACK: Grrreat Gal, Lovely Loops, Lil Baby Snap, Lil Baby Pop, Lil Baby Crackle
BODY TYPE: No date; painted socks, shirt, & undies
HEAD MOLD: 2016 "Freestyle"; ear slots; open mouth
SPECIAL FEATURES: Spits
PERSONAL FUN FACT: I honestly cannot decide which of the tots from the Kellogg's pack I like the best. Based on the brands of cereal, I would have to go with Grrreat Gal. Although I'm sure I wouldn't enjoy Frosted Flakes as an adult, I did eat them from time to time as a kid. Fruit Loops on the other hand I always found disgusting (something about the weird texture and the super artificial fruit flavors). I admit I didn't pay much mind to this particular Mini Sweets Deluxe Pack when it came out. As much as I enjoy Lils, I tend to prefer sets that are predominantly tots. I figured I'd get this Kellogg's pack if it went on sale. At first my local Walmart marked it down to $20, which is about $10 off from the original price. This was still too much money for me, especially since many of the other dolls were on clearance. Then in early April 2024, I finally saw a deal on the Kellogg's dolls. They had been slashed to just $9...a whopping $20 off!!! I just couldn't help myself. The Mini Sweets and Mini Bites lines are some of my favorite L.O.L. collections of all time. It turns out that I majorly underestimated the pack. All the dolls are darling (especially the two tots). My favorite feature about this doll has to be her rainbow blended hair. It works wonderfully with the choice of head mold. I love how one of the ponytails kind of looks like a claw. I'm not sure if that's intentional, but that's how I interpret it. The freckles and green eye shadow also make this cutie pop!
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Gumeracha. Kenton Park. The western facade of William Beavis Randells two storey stone barn. It was built in 1841 and the homestead was built in 1844. William Beavis Randell.
David McLaren took out three Special Surveys of the Torrens Valley area for the SA Company in 1839/40. One centred on the River Torrens which flows through what became Gumeracha. The SA Company had a manager’s residence built at Gumeracha named Ludlow House for the sheep and cattle herd manager of their lands there. William Beavis Randell, arrived in South Australia in October 1837 as a SA Company manager and he was sent to work at Ludlow House. William Beavis Randell was born in Devon in England in 1799 and married Mary Ann Bear in 1823 in the village of Kenton near Exeter Devon. He came from a family of flour millers and that was his father’s occupation in Devon. William Beavis Randell’s first born child William Richard Randell arrived in 1824. At the age of 38 William Beavis Randell brought his wife and family of seven children to South Australia including William Richard Randell who was then 13 years old. When William Beavis’ contract with the SA Company expired in 1845 he bought land for himself in Kenton Valley adjacent to Gumeracha. Here he built a grand house, which he called Kenton Park and a flour mill which opened for business in 1847.
Flour milling was such an important industry in early South Australia and William Beavis Randell Senior built his first flour mill at Gumeracha in 1847 which he called Kenton Mills. He had leased and run a flour mill in Kenton Devon before he moved to South Australia. On his land he first built a two storey stone barn in 1841 followed by Kenton Park House in 1844. When he built his first flourmill in 1847 he also built a row of workers cottages for his employees. These 1847 cottages are locally heritage listed and they received an Adelaide Hills Council grant of $20,000 in 2023 for their restoration. Like Kenton Park house they back onto the River Torrens. Directly opposite the flour mill he built Mill Cottage as a residence for his son William Richard Randell and another son John Beavis Randell. Today Mill cottage is a well maintained private stone residence.
The Randall family with seven children moved into the Gothic style Kenton Park house in 1844. Randall had 966 acres of prime land along the River Torrens with some bought from the SA Company Special Survey and some from the government. From 1848 he bought wheat from the early settlers at Blumberg (Birdwood) for processing in his flourmill. One of his sons, Samuel Randell managed a flour mill at Blumberg. William Beavis Randell and the Randell family also bought the flour mill at Mt Pleasant built in 1863 and another at Eden Valley which was managed by William Richard Randell another son of William Randell senior. Then William Beavis Randell also acquired the land for a flour mill in Blumberg from George Fife Angas. He built the Blumberg (Birdwood) mill in 1854 and in 1857 it was destroyed by a fire. It was rebuilt and partially fire damaged again in 1867 when it was rebuilt again. It was owned by William Beavis Randell until his death in late December 1876. Thereafter it was sold to the Pflaum brothers in 1877. They built a grand three storey structure in 1888 and that building is now the National Motor Museum in Birdwood. Much of the flour produced in the Gumeracha flour mill from 1853 onwards was carted by bullock teams to Mannum to be loaded onto a Randell ship for transport up the Murray and Darling rivers and to the gold mining centre of Bendigo and the Murray-Darling River sheep stations! The Randell flour mill was converted to a butter factory in 1883 by William Richard Randell and later it became a butcher’s shop, and an AMSCOL milk depot. More recently a bed and breakfast establishment operated in it before it reverted to a private residence.
William Beavis Randell was a good Baptist and friend of David McLaren the former SA Company manager who was also a Baptist. McLaren had lived in Ludlow House himself for some time. Early Baptist services for the Gumeracha area were held in William Beavis Randell’s barn (built 1841) until the Salem Baptist Church, the oldest Baptist congregation in SA, was built. This congregation was keen to build a church and one opened in 1846 with the first service taken by Reverend Thomas Playford of Mitcham. Randell donated some of his land for this Baptist church which he attended. William Beavis Randell and his wife and numerous family members are buried in the attached cemetery. Until 1899 baptisms were conducted in a spring in the circle of oaks opposite the church but an earthquake at the time dried up the permanent spring which was located there and used for the baptisms.
Randell died at Kenton Park in 1876 and the milling business was then taken over by his son William Richard Randell. William Beavis Randell was an interesting character. But there is a surprise in William Beavis Randell’s story because in the last year of his 77 years of life on 17th August 1876 he married his housekeeper who was only 38 years old. He died on 28th December 1876. His first wife Mary Ann had died in December 1874 and was buried in the Salem cemetery with a simple marble headstone. After William Beavis Randell died a grand marble memorial was built for his grave with Mary Ann Elliot Randell’s name also listed on that headstone although she was buried nearby. His second wife was Phoebe Robbins and by the time Randell died, just four months after the marriage, Phoebe was pregnant with a child who was named John Beavis Randell. William Beavis Randell was buried in the Salem Baptist cemetery in January 1877. After his death Phoebe inherited 100 acres of land but she did not inherit Kenton Park. Phoebe Randell died in 1922. Her son John Beavis Randell bought Kenton Park in 1928 and moved back into the house and he represented Gumeracha in state parliament in the 1920s. He died in 1953. William Beavis Randell had nine children with Mary Ann and John Randell with Phoebe. Kenton Park remained in the Randell family until the year 2000 when it was sold to others.
Gumeracha. Statue and autumn flowers in the gardens of Kenton Park. William Beavis Randell.
David McLaren took out three Special Surveys of the Torrens Valley area for the SA Company in 1839/40. One centred on the River Torrens which flows through what became Gumeracha. The SA Company had a manager’s residence built at Gumeracha named Ludlow House for the sheep and cattle herd manager of their lands there. William Beavis Randell, arrived in South Australia in October 1837 as a SA Company manager and he was sent to work at Ludlow House. William Beavis Randell was born in Devon in England in 1799 and married Mary Ann Bear in 1823 in the village of Kenton near Exeter Devon. He came from a family of flour millers and that was his father’s occupation in Devon. William Beavis Randell’s first born child William Richard Randell arrived in 1824. At the age of 38 William Beavis Randell brought his wife and family of seven children to South Australia including William Richard Randell who was then 13 years old. When William Beavis’ contract with the SA Company expired in 1845 he bought land for himself in Kenton Valley adjacent to Gumeracha. Here he built a grand house, which he called Kenton Park and a flour mill which opened for business in 1847.
Flour milling was such an important industry in early South Australia and William Beavis Randell Senior built his first flour mill at Gumeracha in 1847 which he called Kenton Mills. He had leased and run a flour mill in Kenton Devon before he moved to South Australia. On his land he first built a two storey stone barn in 1841 followed by Kenton Park House in 1844. When he built his first flourmill in 1847 he also built a row of workers cottages for his employees. These 1847 cottages are locally heritage listed and they received an Adelaide Hills Council grant of $20,000 in 2023 for their restoration. Like Kenton Park house they back onto the River Torrens. Directly opposite the flour mill he built Mill Cottage as a residence for his son William Richard Randell and another son John Beavis Randell. Today Mill cottage is a well maintained private stone residence.
The Randall family with seven children moved into the Gothic style Kenton Park house in 1844. Randall had 966 acres of prime land along the River Torrens with some bought from the SA Company Special Survey and some from the government. From 1848 he bought wheat from the early settlers at Blumberg (Birdwood) for processing in his flourmill. One of his sons, Samuel Randell managed a flour mill at Blumberg. William Beavis Randell and the Randell family also bought the flour mill at Mt Pleasant built in 1863 and another at Eden Valley which was managed by William Richard Randell another son of William Randell senior. Then William Beavis Randell also acquired the land for a flour mill in Blumberg from George Fife Angas. He built the Blumberg (Birdwood) mill in 1854 and in 1857 it was destroyed by a fire. It was rebuilt and partially fire damaged again in 1867 when it was rebuilt again. It was owned by William Beavis Randell until his death in late December 1876. Thereafter it was sold to the Pflaum brothers in 1877. They built a grand three storey structure in 1888 and that building is now the National Motor Museum in Birdwood. Much of the flour produced in the Gumeracha flour mill from 1853 onwards was carted by bullock teams to Mannum to be loaded onto a Randell ship for transport up the Murray and Darling rivers and to the gold mining centre of Bendigo and the Murray-Darling River sheep stations! The Randell flour mill was converted to a butter factory in 1883 by William Richard Randell and later it became a butcher’s shop, and an AMSCOL milk depot. More recently a bed and breakfast establishment operated in it before it reverted to a private residence.
William Beavis Randell was a good Baptist and friend of David McLaren the former SA Company manager who was also a Baptist. McLaren had lived in Ludlow House himself for some time. Early Baptist services for the Gumeracha area were held in William Beavis Randell’s barn (built 1841) until the Salem Baptist Church, the oldest Baptist congregation in SA, was built. This congregation was keen to build a church and one opened in 1846 with the first service taken by Reverend Thomas Playford of Mitcham. Randell donated some of his land for this Baptist church which he attended. William Beavis Randell and his wife and numerous family members are buried in the attached cemetery. Until 1899 baptisms were conducted in a spring in the circle of oaks opposite the church but an earthquake at the time dried up the permanent spring which was located there and used for the baptisms.
Randell died at Kenton Park in 1876 and the milling business was then taken over by his son William Richard Randell. William Beavis Randell was an interesting character. But there is a surprise in William Beavis Randell’s story because in the last year of his 77 years of life on 17th August 1876 he married his housekeeper who was only 38 years old. He died on 28th December 1876. His first wife Mary Ann had died in December 1874 and was buried in the Salem cemetery with a simple marble headstone. After William Beavis Randell died a grand marble memorial was built for his grave with Mary Ann Elliot Randell’s name also listed on that headstone although she was buried nearby. His second wife was Phoebe Robbins and by the time Randell died, just four months after the marriage, Phoebe was pregnant with a child who was named John Beavis Randell. William Beavis Randell was buried in the Salem Baptist cemetery in January 1877. After his death Phoebe inherited 100 acres of land but she did not inherit Kenton Park. Phoebe Randell died in 1922. Her son John Beavis Randell bought Kenton Park in 1928 and moved back into the house and he represented Gumeracha in state parliament in the 1920s. He died in 1953. William Beavis Randell had nine children with Mary Ann and John Randell with Phoebe. Kenton Park remained in the Randell family until the year 2000 when it was sold to others.
Gumeracha. Kenton Partk. This quaint old wooden rocking horse is in the heritage listed two storey stone barn erected in 1841. William Beavis Randell.
David McLaren took out three Special Surveys of the Torrens Valley area for the SA Company in 1839/40. One centred on the River Torrens which flows through what became Gumeracha. The SA Company had a manager’s residence built at Gumeracha named Ludlow House for the sheep and cattle herd manager of their lands there. William Beavis Randell, arrived in South Australia in October 1837 as a SA Company manager and he was sent to work at Ludlow House. William Beavis Randell was born in Devon in England in 1799 and married Mary Ann Bear in 1823 in the village of Kenton near Exeter Devon. He came from a family of flour millers and that was his father’s occupation in Devon. William Beavis Randell’s first born child William Richard Randell arrived in 1824. At the age of 38 William Beavis Randell brought his wife and family of seven children to South Australia including William Richard Randell who was then 13 years old. When William Beavis’ contract with the SA Company expired in 1845 he bought land for himself in Kenton Valley adjacent to Gumeracha. Here he built a grand house, which he called Kenton Park and a flour mill which opened for business in 1847.
Flour milling was such an important industry in early South Australia and William Beavis Randell Senior built his first flour mill at Gumeracha in 1847 which he called Kenton Mills. He had leased and run a flour mill in Kenton Devon before he moved to South Australia. On his land he first built a two storey stone barn in 1841 followed by Kenton Park House in 1844. When he built his first flourmill in 1847 he also built a row of workers cottages for his employees. These 1847 cottages are locally heritage listed and they received an Adelaide Hills Council grant of $20,000 in 2023 for their restoration. Like Kenton Park house they back onto the River Torrens. Directly opposite the flour mill he built Mill Cottage as a residence for his son William Richard Randell and another son John Beavis Randell. Today Mill cottage is a well maintained private stone residence.
The Randall family with seven children moved into the Gothic style Kenton Park house in 1844. Randall had 966 acres of prime land along the River Torrens with some bought from the SA Company Special Survey and some from the government. From 1848 he bought wheat from the early settlers at Blumberg (Birdwood) for processing in his flourmill. One of his sons, Samuel Randell managed a flour mill at Blumberg. William Beavis Randell and the Randell family also bought the flour mill at Mt Pleasant built in 1863 and another at Eden Valley which was managed by William Richard Randell another son of William Randell senior. Then William Beavis Randell also acquired the land for a flour mill in Blumberg from George Fife Angas. He built the Blumberg (Birdwood) mill in 1854 and in 1857 it was destroyed by a fire. It was rebuilt and partially fire damaged again in 1867 when it was rebuilt again. It was owned by William Beavis Randell until his death in late December 1876. Thereafter it was sold to the Pflaum brothers in 1877. They built a grand three storey structure in 1888 and that building is now the National Motor Museum in Birdwood. Much of the flour produced in the Gumeracha flour mill from 1853 onwards was carted by bullock teams to Mannum to be loaded onto a Randell ship for transport up the Murray and Darling rivers and to the gold mining centre of Bendigo and the Murray-Darling River sheep stations! The Randell flour mill was converted to a butter factory in 1883 by William Richard Randell and later it became a butcher’s shop, and an AMSCOL milk depot. More recently a bed and breakfast establishment operated in it before it reverted to a private residence.
William Beavis Randell was a good Baptist and friend of David McLaren the former SA Company manager who was also a Baptist. McLaren had lived in Ludlow House himself for some time. Early Baptist services for the Gumeracha area were held in William Beavis Randell’s barn (built 1841) until the Salem Baptist Church, the oldest Baptist congregation in SA, was built. This congregation was keen to build a church and one opened in 1846 with the first service taken by Reverend Thomas Playford of Mitcham. Randell donated some of his land for this Baptist church which he attended. William Beavis Randell and his wife and numerous family members are buried in the attached cemetery. Until 1899 baptisms were conducted in a spring in the circle of oaks opposite the church but an earthquake at the time dried up the permanent spring which was located there and used for the baptisms.
Randell died at Kenton Park in 1876 and the milling business was then taken over by his son William Richard Randell. William Beavis Randell was an interesting character. But there is a surprise in William Beavis Randell’s story because in the last year of his 77 years of life on 17th August 1876 he married his housekeeper who was only 38 years old. He died on 28th December 1876. His first wife Mary Ann had died in December 1874 and was buried in the Salem cemetery with a simple marble headstone. After William Beavis Randell died a grand marble memorial was built for his grave with Mary Ann Elliot Randell’s name also listed on that headstone although she was buried nearby. His second wife was Phoebe Robbins and by the time Randell died, just four months after the marriage, Phoebe was pregnant with a child who was named John Beavis Randell. William Beavis Randell was buried in the Salem Baptist cemetery in January 1877. After his death Phoebe inherited 100 acres of land but she did not inherit Kenton Park. Phoebe Randell died in 1922. Her son John Beavis Randell bought Kenton Park in 1928 and moved back into the house and he represented Gumeracha in state parliament in the 1920s. He died in 1953. William Beavis Randell had nine children with Mary Ann and John Randell with Phoebe. Kenton Park remained in the Randell family until the year 2000 when it was sold to others.
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American White Ibis (left) and juvenile Roseate Spoonbill (right)
Location: J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel-Captiva Road, Sanibel Island, Florida, United States of America
Hungry! This Osprey parent patiently ripped off mouthfuls of fish for its ravenous youngster. When the young Osprey was preoccupied by swallowing, the parent satiated its own hungry with a quick mouthful.
Location: J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Wildlife Drive, Sanibel Island, Florida
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Sydney Tower Eye Sydney Tower Eye, also known as Centre Point Tower is the tallest structure in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and the second-tallest observation tower in the Southern Hemisphere. It has also been known as AMP Tower, and colloquially as Flower Tower, Glower Tower, and Big Poke.
Queen Victoria Building View of the Queen Victoria Building from York Street looking toward Sydney Town Hall.
Initially built in the late 1890s as the home of the Sydney Markets, the Queen Victoria Building quickly became a landmark within the city. But by 1960 it had fallen into disrepair. In the 1980s, the Sydney City Council called for international proposals for its redevelopment. We were selected to create a major retail emporium.
The building was transformed back to its original glory but with the clever insertion of modern day comforts such as lifts, escalators and air conditioning. The development has been a great success story and is now one of Sydney’s major attractions. It has been described by Pierre Cardin as “the greatest shopping center in the world”.
Resting Squadron Shortly after sunrise this pod of White Pelicans was still sleepily resting on a sandbar seemingly reluctant to start a new day.
Location: J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Wildlife Drive, Sanibel Island, Florida
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