http://avavolleyball.com/vwdfbsmx.php?Fox=d3wL7 June 20th. We visited the Big Hole before leaving Kimberley. The Big Hole is a massive crater at the edge of Kimberley’s center: it looks so large as to be a natural feature, but it was excavated entirely by hand, through bedrock. The open pit is more than 600 feet deep, and via underground shafts […]
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The Big Hole.
22-Jun-15Cape Gooseberries.
22-Jun-15http://rhythmsfitness.com/blog/wp-content/themes/.git/HEAD For breakfast here several times I have had what are called “Cape Gooseberries” – which, while I am not an expert on gooseberries, I was fairly sure were not gooseberries. They looked solanaceous to me – like ground cherries, and so I presumed they were from the New World, though their association with the Cape […]
The Rains Down in Africa.
22-Jun-15June 19th. Driving yesterday outside Pilanesberg National Park, we switched radio stations, and what was on but Toto’s Africa. We just looked at each other. I guess it does make sense that that song gets played here.
Africa Without A Map.
21-Jun-15June 18th. I can barely write I’m so exhausted. Catherine and I planned to start our road trip today down to the Cape of Good Hope, but instead we decided to take a day trip north, to Pilanesberg National Park, and set out on the long trip tomorrow. Marianne said it would be a two […]
Autumn in Africa.
21-Jun-15June 17th. Woke up to the sound of what sounded like particularly powerful purring – insistent purring, like someone had recorded a large cat and used it as an alarm on a clock. It was the birds – birds of Africa. I presume it was the sound of the doves, which were all over the […]
South Africa.
21-Jun-15June 16th. Potchefstroom. We made it. A little difficult, but we made it. Our plane landed perfectly on time. We disembarked to find a lovely, modern, spacious, comfortable, neat airport – it is always pleasant to be reminded that the world’s worst major airports are in Queens. But the line to get through passport control […]
Mind With Mind.
21-Jun-15“In Pioneeer countries hospitality is a necessity of life not to the travellers alone but to the settlers. A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis […]
Almost There.
21-Jun-15June 16th. On the plane. As we reached cruising speed, the flight attendants walked through the cabin spraying pesticides, to fumigate the cabin. My phone is off, and I neglected to purchase a watch, as I thought I might do before departure, so I have little idea of the time, but we are more than […]
In Dakar.
21-Jun-15June 16th. On the plane. Dawn in Dakar. We are sitting here on the tarmac, the dawn just a yellow line on the horizon. Insects of various sorts boarding the plane. We are in Africa. At dawn nearly 80 degrees, and tropical humidity breathing into the cabin.
D.C. to Dakar.
20-Jun-15June 15th. On the Airplane, D.C. to Dakar. Seated next to a gentleman by the name of Ed Yates, who is a most impressive big-game hunter. He is bringing some acquaintances on a hunting trip – he is familiar with the country, having owned land in South Africa and gone on numerous hunting trips here. […]