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Monday, December 16, 2019

16/12/2019 More of our trip to Africa and some of the animals we saw.

Maximum temperature in the Charente today 16C, minimum 9C. Dry so far today and last night. 31km/h South-Easterly winds with gusts up to 64 km/h!!

Savanna (or bush) elephant (Loxodonta africana) - a little too close!

As above - romancing...

I love you.

Elephant playing in one of the waterholes. Due to the drought, most of these watering places are having water pumped into them from tankers. Recent rains have fallen in South Africa but many places are still very dry

How low can you go......

I loved this series.

Giraffe (Giraffa giraffa).

Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus),

Leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis).

Ostrich - female (struthio camelus).

Greater kudu male (Tragelaphus strepsiceros)

As above.

Zebra, I suspect this might be a Chapman's zebra (Equus quagga chapmani). Note the stripes to not go right down to the hooves.

Chacma or Cape baboon (Papio ursinus)...

As above.

See also my Bird blog I have many photos of birds and I will put most of them on this blog.

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

07/03/2017 It has pretty much drizzled all day today so a couple of indoor shots, plus a few more from our holiday.

Maximum temperature 11C, minimum 4C. 51km/h NW wind. 2 mm of rain measured this morning.

Small cactus.

Flowers on the kalanchoe.

04/02/17 Wildebeest and young - Botswana.

18/02/17 Buffalo - KwaZulu-Natal....

and another one on the same day cooling off in a mud pool...

and this White Rhino with the same idea!

19/02/17 A bushbaby takes a look at what we are up to at our camp in the evening - KwaZulu-Natal

23/02/17 Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus) - KwaZulu-Natal

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Shadows Along the Zambezi by Diana M. Hawkins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I so enjoyed this book and towards the end I could not put it down only finishing at 2am! Having lived most of my early life in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, so many places had a lot of meaning to me. Diana’s knowledge of every detail in this book is incredible.
Sadly, so much of this story is fact and very true. It made me cry and at times it made me smile. I hope that it might awaken the world as to what is going on in many African countries, and instead of so many people burying their heads in the sand, perhaps they might stand up and do something. Smuggling and hunting are very soon going to leave the world a very sad place when there are no animals left.
Now I am off to read Shadows over an African Heart.

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Shadows Over an African Heart: a novel by Diana M. Hawkins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Shadows over an African Heart is the perfect name for this book. The shadows are even bigger than I ever dreamt, and this book is a real eye-opener to the truth of what is going on. I was in tears in many places in this book. The fictional side story I so enjoyed, but the true and very sad story of the elephants and other animals; the Zimbabwe government has so much to answer for.
The world needs to read both of Diana’s books and action needs to be taken before the children of today never see wildlife as we have had the joy to grow up with around us.
There are many African words in the story which to me were great to be reminded of, but many are explained as you read and there is a good glossary of the words in the back of the book.

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