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Published:
July 31, 2008
New swan seats formally unveiled at Highbridge's Apex Wildlife
Park
 Visitors
to Highbridge's Apex Wildlife Park now have a new animal-themed
place to take the weight off their feet.
Two
wooden, swan-shaped seats have been introduced besides the park's
main car parking area and they were formally unveiled at a special
ceremony on Thursday afternoon (July 31st).
"One seat has been purchased by County Councillor Rosemarie
Parsons from her grants budget and the other has been funded by
Sedgemoor District Council," Joyce Beard, Chairman of the
Friends of Apex Park Improvements Group, told Burnham-On-Sea.com.
"We wanted a new seating area that would double up as a children's
play area near the main car park and had these unique seats designed
for us with a soft plastic surface around them," she added.
"We're all delighted with the end result."
 Joyce,
a keen poet, has also written a rhyme about the seats which will
be on display at the park in coming days.
It
reads: "Proudly seated on a bed of blue, Wooden swans one
and two, Gaze in wonder towards the pond, The trees and bushes
far beyond, Where feathered swans and birds galore, Descend to
swim along the shore, Where children gather with their gifts,
Of crumbs of bread-perhaps some crisps, The seagulls swoop upon
the food, They gather in an angry brood, The children frightened
move away, And mum says "come another day, Now lets go and
have a swing, And let the gulls go on there wing."
Pictured (top) at Thursday's ceremony were Derek Chivers, Eileen
Picton, Mary Draper, Tony Lynham, Joyce Beard and Cllr Rosemary
Parsons
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