4/2/2004: Beauty the diving pig
 

http://cellar.org/2004/beautypig3.jpg

This is the same diving act that started our Friday animal happiness, I think; and IotD has already repeated it once, but it appears to be an annual event. So here she is; her name is Beauty, and she's about 1 and a half years old. She prepares for her leap...

http://cellar.org/2004/beautypig2.jpg

...and she flies through the air... off the three-meter platform...

http://cellar.org/2004/beautypig.jpg

...and she's made her big splash, and she's done her job at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. Happy Friday.

this is one of jinx's favorite paintings. I wonder if there's a connection?
http://www.artboundexpress.com/products/IC/b/S337.jpg

Anything to get out of that cage at the top.

I love that poster btw.

I'll believe it when pigs fly...

oh wait...

nevermind

a tough group for style points:
http://www.bheithir.org/images/photos/score_cards.jpg :(

Why is she foaming at the mouth?

That's not foam. She's storing oxygen for the dive.

maybe i'm anthropomorphizing a bit, but man does that ever look like one HAPPY pig... ;D

such a great look of satisfaction as she climbs out of the water..

Did someone mention flying pigs?

Rennies are notoriously tough judges. They'll run you out of the Festival for wearing non-period shoes...

Here yah go...

http://exit3.i-55.com/~suit/PIGFLY.GIF

I went to the Easter Show on Friday it was fantastic !

i bet on the number 4 pig (in the pig races) and came out with an extra $10 dollars in my pocket!!

I saw two diving pigs that day, Beauty, and the bigger older, miss piggy (who wore a skirt round her hind 1/4s!! cute!! .

its the cutest thing to see and they were very well trained!!


oink!!

I'm such a moron. I've been reading this thread all along as Beauty the Divine Pig.

I think I have trouble with bolding :blush:

Dsylexics of the world untie!:D