Kalahari Desert

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WeeklyPrompts-PC-Extreme-Heat

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extreme heat

summertime temperatures that are much hotter
and/or humid than average
 

The day I captured this image of Loch Ard Gorge

the asphalt in the car park was melting

in the 44-degree heat.

Definitely extreme in Southern Victoria.

I was not the only visitor feeling the heat.

All visitors were either in the water or the shade.

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This image of Botswana’s

Makgadikgadi Salt Pan

which is part of the Kalahari Desert

would produce both hot and cold extremes

during African Summer months.

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Weekly Prompt Photo Challenge:…Extreme-Heat

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RagTagChallenge-Campfire

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campfire

an open-air fire in a camp, used for cooking
and as a focal point for social activity.
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Our campfire almost ready at

Lekhubu Island

Kalahari Desert

Botswana

Cooking breakfast

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RagTagChallenge:…Campfire

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FOWChallenge-Vanish

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vanish

disappear suddenly and completely.
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The Kalahari Scrub-Robin was putting on a show,

so I decided to capture some of it.

After careful focussing, I pushed the shutter.

When I inspected the photo a shadow and legs

was all I had captured

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Lens-ArtistPC-200-Every-Little-Thing

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The Horned Dungbeetle can pull up to 1141 times

its own body weight which is the equivalent of

an average man lifting two fully-laden

18-wheeler trucks.

 

Baby Elephant is the one that gets me smiling.

It was definitely telling us where to go

with its newfound trunk control.

 

Our resident New Holland Honeyeater mum (I think) was

giving me a right telling off when I captured this image.

Since then, and more likely,

I think she may have been talking

to wayward offspring.

This little one is our adored granddaughter.

She only has around nine weeks before

she will have to share the limelight with a sibling.

Another 8 weeks thereafter she will

have a cousin…all being well in both camps.

 

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Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Patti:…Every-Little-Thing

Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Leya:...Every-Little-Thing

Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Amy:…Every-Little-Thing

Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Tina:...Every-Little-Thing

Lens Artist Photo Challenge Anne:…Every-Little-Thing

Lens Artist Photo Challenge Sofia:…Every-Little-Thing

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One-Word-Sunday22-Plane-Plain

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plain-plane

a large area of flat land with few trees.
 
(of a bird or an airborne object) soar
without moving the wings; glide.

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I think Botswana’s

Kalahari Desert…

…fits the

…large area of flat land with few trees…

definition of plains

 

Planes from all over at Johannesburg’s

O.R. Tambo Airport

South Africa

 

A sea, or float, plane

Muddy River

British Columbia

Canada

 

Brtish Airways leaving Heathrow Airport

 

Jet Fighter deploys anti-missile countermeasures

at the Australian International Airshow.

Also known as the

Avalon or Geelong Airshow.

 

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One Word Sunday Challenge:...Plane-Plain

 

 

 

 

 
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Word-of-Day-Challenge-Query

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a question, especially one expressing doubt
or requesting information
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All mine??

Our granddaughter just could not

believe this was all for her.

Family and friends gathered to celebrate

her birthday in the usual fashion

a few days later.

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Word-of-Day-Challenge-Primitive

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relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage
in the evolutionary or historical development of something
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A Kalahari tribesmen village.

Appeared primitive by our standards

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