Wake-up rain

A pair of fake crocs

 

Decided the other end of the Isla Muerta sandbox park should house two Suchomimus. These are Cookiedough and her goth gf Verilettu.

I'm also learning to use the capture mode!

Baby raptors in piles and clusters

Screenshots from various raptor nestcams I follow.

First a peek at the newly hatched Peregrine falcon chicks at Cal Falcons. The first chick hatched on May 5th and the second May 6th, and last I checked the third egg is still unhatched.

Gold drops and fly poop

Dirty window at sunset after rain.

Your ratings mean nothing to me now, muhahaha

Liking the morning and evening lighting with the day/night cycle enabled, especially in the guest area I made for my first sandbox park.

I wasn't too fond of Isla Muerta during the campaign because of the perpetual sunset, which made it harder to see the dinos well, so I chose that island for my first to give a second go to with more control over the settings.

So far there's a big enclosure at one end of the buildable space, with a single road and the monorail between that and the area for the guests to shop and dine at in the middle near the entrance (and two hotels with beautiful ocean view, not that they appreciate that, but with nothing to unlock I now have no reason to care if the customer AI likes parks I like building), and a couple of viewing buildings and a bathroom being all that the guests get this close to the dinos. Don't stress them out with too much noise and weird smells from restaurants and such is what I had in mind. I put a pair of Mamenchisaurus there first, and then decided to populate it entirely with the Shaximiao Formation species available in the game (not all pictured).

All herbivores, maybe the other end of the island will have carnivores.

My Huayangosaurus herd: ladies Pepper, Paprika, Pickles, and Pumpkin.

Sprungeth

Many Thursday birthdays

Eaglet Spirit at the Big Bear Bald eagle nest has been perching on the nest rail and a branch next to the camera a lot, giving us many lovely closeups. Spirit turns nine weeks old today.