Driving swim carpool earlier this week we had to pause as we approached the pool to let a deer cross the road in front of us. Complete with a mighty set of antlers and a very graceful lope he was a pretty impressive sight. Infact the general consensus in the car was that this was even better than the beaver we had spotted chomping on a stick a few weeks earlier (we are still trying to fathom out what the beaver was doing at the roadside). As we drove on, one of the girls I was taking to practice that night treated us to a “fascinating fact”:

In his lifetime a deer walks the equivalent of twice around the world.

I admit that I have not attempted to verify this fact, as I was just so taken with the notion of deer majestically circling the globe.

So please, keep your eyes open and look out for the deer we saw this week as he continues on his round the world trip, and send him back my way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer