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More fynbos…
…and bright red, too. My rough-and-tough wilderness medic blog is turning into a flower show. Granny would be so proud. (Enjoy).
Little treasures
Searching for a geocache we didn’t ever found, we came across this: It’s a fynbos flower, Gladiolus carmineus. Beautiful. Unexpected little treasures are perhaps the best.
First 9/11… now 8/22?
Demonstrating (what counts for me as) great personal restraint, I have held back the obvious Lord of the Rings puns all day as we bid farewell to the two Athlone Cooling Towers… but I can’t help note the allegory to the more unfortunate US event fading rapidly into our combined histories. Ours, of course, came [...]
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Random Photo – Welcome to South Georgia
South Georgia is without doubt one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited. I first set foot there in Right Whale Bay, late one summer evening, and was confronted with pandemonium – more seals than I had ever seen before, mixed with more penguins than I could comprehend, surrounded by other birds on [...]
Random Photo – Ice in Cierva Cove
It’s not only the wildlife in Antarctica that is photogenic: the landscapes, sea and ice combine in innumerable ways to create awesome beauty. While slowly cruising around Cierva Cove on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, the groups was captivated by a pair of crab-eater seals. Turning around, I shot the sculpted ‘bergs beneath [...]
Random Photo – Caracara
On New Island in the Falklands, this Striated Caracara became very curious while I lay in the grass and watched the clouds drift past. The ‘Johnny Rook’ has a bad rep – some would say well-deserved – but I found them charismatic and delightful… perhaps because they, too, are a little rough around the edges. [...]
Random Photo – Giant Petrel
For the want of time (ok, let’s face it: self-discipline) to write posts, I thought I’d start trying to regularly post excerpts from my photographic collection. It is very likely that the photographs will not be contemporaneous, as I’m seldom ready to post pictures while still travelling, but hopefully they will be interesting. Today’s image [...]
