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My
Arches
Travel Theme.
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Nature and wildlife contain many arches…
such as the gentle arch in a giraffe’s neck as it bends to feed.
I don’t know what this bird is,
but have always thought it looked like a mirror reflection
except that the reflection has a big arch in its back line.
Last year we were told that impalas were the rabbits of Africa.
More recently, I read or heard a conversation
describing them as McDonalds of Africa.
It was asked if they were called McDonalds because of the
black line which forms rough M arches around their rump.
This is my favourite arch this week.
A gorgeous sight in the setting sun
Thankfully it remains under 24 hour military guard.
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Where’s My Backpack?: Travel Theme: Arches
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WoollyMuses 
Hi, thanks for visiting my blog, Love your animal arches! Great shots.
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Love the different take!!
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wonderful and creative take on the challenge :”)
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Very clever idea for the challenge, Woolly. 🙂
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Gorgeous! Never thought of these particular arches!
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Thank you. I just hope that my animal photos do not become boring.
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OH no!
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Good 🙂
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How creative to find animal arches!!! Love that last one — rhino silhouette: perfect.
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Just imagine if the nearly 2,000 rhinos which have been poached in 2013 and 2014 had been left to grow to this extent. A sight not to be forgotten.
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We heard about that when on safari. In fact, we were asked not to post our pics of rhinos because poachers were looking on social media sites to see where people had sighted them. So very, very sad.
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We were not given that advice. Although we were told last year that poachers often posed as tourists, tapped in co-ordinates into their GPS when one was sighted and flew under cover of darkness. Now I wish I had not posted mine.
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Never heard of that tactic for alerting others about the whereabouts of the rhinos. Don’t worry about your post, however. I don’t think you gave a location away.
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Sounded plausible…and when one is a tourist we trust locals…right?
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These are great.
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Thank you
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Great photos. I did think of taking a photo of the arch at MacDonalds but thought it was too naff. 😀
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I know I have published the Maccas arch in the background of another photo but could not find. I was hoping to use it as a comparison to the impala arches. 🙂
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Arches in living things! Nice take WoollyMuses!
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Glad you like it. I was a bit dubious about using this type of arch.
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