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Old trees…
…with broken/fractured limbs.
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Wheel of all types.
Royal wheels.
Trailer wheels.
Bicycle wheels.
Rent-a-Bike wheels.
A seven foot diameter fly wheel
from an old stone crushing plant.
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Whenever I think of, or hear,
the word ‘loss’….
…my mind immediately thinks of where
most of my departed family now rest.
And in what is obviously a small
country cemetery there are also many
memories surrounding those who are not
family in the strictest sense of the word.
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A beacon in the night, from….
…an unexpected place.
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The male Southern Masked Weaver
builds a nest for its beloved.
He pays attention to details because
his future bride will pull it to pieces
if the nest is not up to her standard.
Future father weaver commences all over again.
Father lion allowed his wives and children
to rest on the other side of the road.
Apparently this is an unusual sight,
seeing the male and female ostrich together.
Less than 10 percent of nests survive
the 9 weeks of laying and incubation.
Of those that do survive only fifteen percent
of chicks survive to one year of age.
However, if an ostrich can survive to adulthood,
they are expected to live 40-45 years in the wild
and over 60 years in captivity.
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Islands.
My first thoughts were of Australia
because of its status as the island continent.
New Zealand was a fast finishing second
because we visited in 2018.
However, I opted for Lekhubu Island which is located
somewhere in the Sua (or Sowa) Salt Pan
in the Makgadikgadi region of Botswana’s
Kalahari Desert.
Lekhubu Island has two main features.
First, it rises above the surrounding salt pans by a few metres.
Second, is its Baobab trees
And possibly third, it appeared to have
a clear horizon for 360 degrees.
Several photos have been roughly stitched together
to form this panoramic shot of
our drive into Lekhubu Island.
The salt pans dried up several thousand years ago.
Back then the scene may have looked a bit like this.
However, according to Google there is still water
in these pans during the summer wet season.
We visited in September.
The drive over the pan lasted several hours.
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