Vegas: Duckies!

While there are certainly other, more iconic animals, to associate with the city of Las Vegas- like Siegfried and Roy's famous lions and tigers, or maybe the flap-happy little rodents of the "bat-country" Hunter S. Thompson so famously warned about in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas... personally, I think there are few creatures who fit the bill quite like ducks, who's transient nature makes them an apt symbol for the tourism-based economy of the city. Were it not for the hordes of visitors flooding the city every summer and major holiday, the city itself would be unable to stay afloat in the unsteady and rapidly changing economy. It's all enough to make you quack if you let it ruffle your feathers, but it's best to just go with the flow and be like the ducks themselves... floating on cool, easy waters, tails waggling. 

Not unlike the ducks, who make their annual visitation to the city in droves with the changing of the seasons, so too is the human traffic seasonally varied. There are predictable upswings in the crowds around certain holidays and seasons, despite the severity of the weather or predictable upswing in cost for rooms. As the leaves start to change their tones and drop to the ground, school starts to come back into season for the fall and the crowds start to wane, opting to remain back home rather than migrating to warmer climes. We certainly enjoy and profit from their visitations, and marvel as their fluffy little ducklings waddle behind the crew in their futile effort to keep pace, but soon the crowds and ducks shall be gone once again. The longest day of the year has already come and gone, and soon the winter months will spread their chill through us all. 

And the ducks? They'll be gone, off to warmer weather somewhere unaffected by the cold grasp of winter. Lucky ducks. But, not unlike the ducks, there will be another migration as the winter months grow oppressive and humans make their own pilgrimage to the desert, in search of sunnier days.
These things.

All photos in this post provided by Antho Jay!

Until next time!

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NAU