Non stop

Lab work, interviewing nurses in Somerset West, a Skype meeting that went on far longer than it should, home to braai and then pack for a short trip tomorrow (more of that… tomorrow).
It’s past 10 and I’ve only just sat down.

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Probably best that you’re willing to settle for a photo of a heron on a tree top, then.
More from a (not really) mystery location tomorrow.

Saturday excuses

Often, when we’re heading down to Agulhas, I prepare posts in advance so that if I forget to blog, I’m covered. Sadly, I forgot to do that this time around (thanks to my four day weekend), so I have had to remember to post this.

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I’ve had a chilled day with an excellent lunch at the Black Oystercatcher before heading back to Struisbaai and watching the local fishing fleet coming in. And that above is last night’s sunset. Hashtag no filter.

Tomorrow promises more relaxation and a walk along the beach before a long meander home on Monday.

Plug

I found myself rewiring a UK plug this morning. Not a difficult task, but certainly an unusual one.

plug2It was while I was staring at the thing that I noted just how photogenic its simple functionality was. And so I played around a bit with Prisma and came up with the sketch above.

What? That’s it.

Quote Ship n Sunset

Very short on time today, and with a family meal out this evening, there’s a real danger that this will be the day when I fail to blog for the first time in [a length of time I don’t have the time to calculate right now].

Incredible.

If ever there was a call for a quota photo, this can like to be it.

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That there would be the Chinese Heavy Lifting Vessel Xiang Rui Kou, disappearing into the South Atlantic sunset.

And this would be me saying that’s quite enough shipping for this week, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

At the elephant park

Mrs 6000 recently made a trip to the Knysna Elephant Park in… well… near Knysna. Among the activities on offer there are watching the elephants, feeding the elephants, riding the elephants and photographing the…

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er… zebras?

Yes, they have zebras there too. Mrs 6000 took many amazing photos of the elephants too, and I will be uploading them to Flickr. [UPDATE: Done! Here.] But this striking (previously variegated) image of these four chaps jumped out as an immediate favourite of mine, and that’s why it’s up here first.

Related: it’s quite nice to have Mrs 6000 home again.