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My contribution for this week’s
Dirt, Rocks, Sand, Trails
Challenge
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The photos for this week are again all from South Africa and some are
‘mobile’ photos (shot from a moving vehicle) and may not be my best.
Let’s get the sand out of the way….
Sand tops my ‘least liked’ list, but it does help create… 
a nice photo every now and again.
The scary part of this cairn was the distance it was above, or from water.
Many of the Rest Camps also used a stone formation similar to this to announce their existence.
Rocks like these made me feel almost at home.
Mostly the stone around my home town is volcanic lava flows.
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Just love this formation.
I would love to be able to go back in time and then fast forward and watch this form.
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Many of our tracks/roads twisted….
and turned.
If we stopped we would often find animal tracks similar to these hippo tracks.
Then over a rise in the road…
surprises like this.
What fascinate me about African animals was that a vehicle posed no threat to them. This is a crop of the above shot, but many time we were able to drive to within slingshot distance from animals. Poachers must have a field day! It would not even be half a challenge to shot a wild animal with modern weapons at everyone’s disposal. Apologies for my rant…I love the animals.
A reality check…I have NEVER seen a snake track that size before.
If I my tracking skills (oR memory) are not as good as I think they are please let me know and I will amend.
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Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge: Dirt-Rocks-Sand-Tracks
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WoollyMuses 
I really liked the assortment of dirt-rocks-sand-trails. I literally shuddered at the commentary about the snake. I doubt I would have recognized the trail otherwise! .. but the rock formations are my favourites!!
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The guide who showed us the snake track kept a pet adder, or some other venomous sounding snake, as a pet. It was not a python. I did not stop to see it as even the small dog which ‘owned’ the camp had to be locked away. The same guide also had a spider which covered his hand – photos and reports only – and shed hair. This hair lodged in the handlers skin and was itching all the following day. He said he did not have a girl friend……..strange!? Don’t you think?
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HAHAHAHA! Nope – no surprise there!!!
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🙂
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I knew you would come up with some unusual groundscapes….especially for me here in the PacNorthwest 🙂 Thanks.
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I have no idea of what the PacNorthwest is like. Closest I have been is Vancouver for a few days. Also camped in the Rockies, both in 1976. If the PacNorthwest is an extension of Rockies etc, then SA landscapes are quite different come to think of it.
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Great pics for the challenge, Woolly. I so agree with you about the rock formation. Wouldn’t it be fascinating to be able to see how it formed? 🙂
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Sure Would!
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Wow, Africa is a continent that I never been to …. I’m lying – I have been to Algeria.
It looks very hot and dry …. I wonder if this formation is man made ???? Great entry again.
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To be honest it was not high on my list…but I am a real convert. We had planned a trip to Hawaii this year, however, the flight we booked is heading in the other direction and we are counting the months till our return.
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