Month: September 2013

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Wordless Wednesday: Africa

Wordless Wednesday: African Delight

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Is this an ordinary South African sunset?

Look carefully before continuing…

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Our first day in Kruger National Park and second Game Drive produced this sighting just before sundown

To sight a leopard in such an exposed spot is a very rare occurrence, so we have been told.

Totally aware of our presence the leopard barely moved a muscle.

For those who know Kruger we did make it back to camp before the gates closed….just.

Tish Farrell, asked me to give her love to Africa. I have done so, Tish….and I have also expressed my love for Africa, over and over again in the few days we have been here.

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Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday (create-with-joy.com)

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Look Up, Look Down Challenge-7-2609

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My contribution to

Look Up, Look Down

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Situated atop a hill in Castlemaine, Victoria, there was only one way to look when viewing this monument early Australian explorers Burke and Wills.

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Travelwithintent.com 

Look Up, Look Down, challenge

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  1. Travelwithintent.com/2013/08/21/lincoln-statue-Week 2
  2. Look Up Look Down: Week 1 ~ Baltimore | The Day After
  3. Ceephotography.com/2013/08/19/-look-up-and-down-week-1/
  4. Photo Challenge: Look Up, Look Down | Lady Of The Cakes
    1. : Look Up, Look Down Challenge – How to Participate | Travel with Intent
    2. Look Up, Look Down Challenge-3 | WoollyMuses
    3. Boris Bikes – Look Up, Look Down Challenge, week 3 | Travel with Intent
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A-Z Challenge-M-M-M

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My contribution this week.

This may be my last entry for a week or two

due to holidays.

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Microwave.

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…millimetre.

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We would call these dairy cows, but I have heard them referred to as milk cows.  Same thing.

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M-M-M-challenge

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge:Brown

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My contribution for this week’s Brown challenge.

Scheduled two weeks ago as I am on holidays.

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Some jersey Bulls and some heifers with a few shades of brown

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…and I just hope this horse is brown…

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…definitely reddish brown in these bricks and iron work…

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…and finishing with a hot Cappuccino.

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Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge: Brown

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Johannesburg

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After a 12 our flight from Perth we are a bit weary, but safe and sound,

thanks to

Qantas and South African Airways

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Our  overnight hosts at the Airport Game Lodge met and transferred us to our accomodation.

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Ozzie ostrich was the first to the greet bleary eyed new arivals.

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…and kept an eye on most of the day.

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A weaver took time out to watch the Aussies, from on high and afar

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Tomorrow airborne again to Palaborwa where our safari into Kruger National Park really begins..

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Where’s my backpack?: Travel theme: Architecture

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Travel Theme: Through

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My contribution for this week’s

Travel Theme challenge.

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Dear old Brandy did not think it appropriate that he had to push his head through the bottom of a bucket for six weeks.  It was all in a good cause. He had an infected eye and earned himself the nickname of ‘Buckethead’ during this time.

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A couple of nights ago there was a power supply interruption.  I happened to glance out the window to see a rising moon peeping through the cloud cover.

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Cloud cover provide some nice shots…I thought.

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…and still a different view using maximum zoom.

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Where’s my backpack?:

Travel Theme: Through

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Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Lines to Patterns

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Has been a busy day so used what I could to create a Lines to Patterns post this week.

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One line…

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…joins with another…

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…which intersects with still other lines…

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…which altogether create a pattern.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines to Patterns

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A Word a Week Photography Challenge-Arch

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My contribution for Word of the Week Challenge this week.

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The arch across Cunningham Pier.

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An arch is formed by the lines of the Melbourne Cricket Ground grandstand.

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Arches of various sizes adorn this early twentieth century building.

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Daffodils gracefully arch their flower heads towards the ground.

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Arches top the windows and doors on this church.

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A WORD A WEEK CHALLENGE–“Arch” 

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Floral Friday-Festival-of-Flowers-2009

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Banksia.

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A few months ago, during a photo expedition I noticed these expired Banksia flowers.  The seed pods present an interesting sight long after their flowers are gone.

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My guess is that these seed pods several years ago.

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The last of the 2013 season  flowers are all but spent.  I must remember to return during the next flowering season.

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Floral Friday

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Festival of Flowers

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