When you watch young animals at play, you are often watching a safe “rehearsal” of competitive behaviours, which will become more “serious” – much fiercer – when “cute” youngsters become adults.
Homo sapiens is an animal.
Perhaps, today’s photo offers a sneak preview of a future life as yet another “West Australian mining magnate”…
Resource-rich Western Australia has been picked the most attractive region for mining investment in 2021, replacing the US state of Nevada. (as reported on April 11 2022 by MINING[DOT]COM)
The candid photo’s subjects are almost certainly siblings, each gently mocking the other’s preferred activity.
(photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken on Cottesloe Beach at 2.51 pm on 03 July 2022)
If hat-throwing/prospecting older brother is not “a future Twiggy Forrest”, he just might become “21st century WA’s Charlie Chaplin”.