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Seeing out the rest of its days
in the shade of an old gum tree.
Where sheep can be found during
the hottest part of a summer day.
Botswana’s Kalahari Scrub Robin
casting a shadow much larger
than its actual size.
Lekhubu Island
Lens-ArtistPC-150-Let’s-Get-Wild
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Images from South Africa and Botswana
Vulture at
Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
South Africa
Elephants
While we waited for the second vehicle
this hyena wandered past giving us
a sideways glance as it did.
Where we stop at a zebra crossing and
wait for zebras to cross the road.
Botswana’s Elephant Sands
waterhole
Warthog
Zebras…
….and again
African Wild Dog came into
our Okavango Camp
Quenching a thirst at
Elephant Sands
Okavango Delta
Leopard
Lekhubu Island sunrise
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Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Patti:…Let’s-Get-Wild
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Leya:...Let’s-Get-Wild
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Amy:…Let’s-Get-Wild
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Tina:...Let’s-Get-Wild
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Word-of-Day-Challenge-Queer
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queer
differing in some way from what is usual or normal
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I remember at the time thinking what
an unusually shaped tree root, this was.
Unfortunately, I don’t think I captured
another image to put it in context.
Then as now all I see is a reptile hanging out of a tree.
One of my more interesting images from
Botswana’s Lekhubu Island in the
Makgadikgadi Salt Pans.
Another oddity sighted on Lekhubu Island
was this split rock.
The only other rocks I have seen split so cleanly
by Mother Nature were at
The Devil’s Marbles in the Northern Territory.
The Marble which was photographed
the most was some 10-12 feet in diameter.
Apparently desert extremes (heat and cold)
causes the split.
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Cee’s-FFChallenge-Hole-Or-Whole
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When this elephant wandered past us our guide said,
There goes the whole of Africa.
Knowing our guide he would have
had a twinkle in his eye, as we did,
not knowing whether he had
said Hole or Whole
*****
However there was no discussion about spelling
we when arrived at Lochnagar Crater, some
21 Km from Villers Bretonneux.
A hole in the ground it was.
Created by detonating 27 tons of explosive
under the German army’s frontline.
The explosion created a crater
330 feet (100.5 metres) across
and 70 ft (21 metres) deep.
For comparison a Jumbo jet
measures 63 metres in length
with a wing span of 60 metres
and a height of 19.4 metres (63 ft 6 in)
meaning it would easily fit in the crater.
*****
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Cee’s-FFChallenge-Ate-or-Eight
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Eight kilometres, or miles, to come or go,
or the eighth post
*****
When the minute hand reaches number 8
the time is 40 minutes past the hour
or only 20 minutes until the next hour has passed.
*****
It may have only been campfire fare but we
ate well on our Botswana Safari.
*****
A wet Sunday afternoon in
a Murano Restaurant…
…where one-and-all ate well,
drank well, and became
merrier as the afternoon drew to a close
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One-Word-Sunday-Ugly
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ugly
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I would be…
…hard pressed…
…to find any beauty…
….in these arachnids
although many would disagree.
Even this one, long embedded in resin
made me jump when I saw how close
it was to my hand.
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One Word Sunday Challenge:...Ugly
One-Word-Sunday-Empty
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empty
containing nothing,
not filled or occupied.
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Makgadikgadi Salt Pans…
…are located on the North Eastern edge of
Botswana’s Kalahari Desert.
We drove for several hours over what appeared
to be empty acres of salt.
The only time we knew there was life was when
we sighted some wildlife.
Lekhubu Island, our destination,
was a pleasant site on the horizon…
…which only temporarily blocked our view of the emptiness…
…all round us.
The emptiness did make for a beautiful sunset…
…followed by an equally beautiful sunrise
in the morning.
Packed and ready to go,
we were soon out of salt pans…
…however, apart from the occasional tree
the landscape was still very empty.
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One Word Sunday Challenge:...Empty
Silent-Sunday-Lekhubu-Island-Sunrise
FOWChallenge-Odd
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odd
different to what is usual or expected; strange.
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Two dogs three kennels?
That’s odd!
This tree branch looked like a serpent to me.
Truly odd!
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Fandango’s One Word Challenge: Odd
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FriendlyFriday-Shadows
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Kalahari Scrub Robin
and shadow.
Winter shadows on the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
The MCG was the site of the 1956 Olympics,
the 2006 Games
and countless Cricket and (AFL) Football Matches.
Shadows at Pisa.
Summer Shadows in…
…Bourke Street,
Melbourne.
