Forgive me, if you will, one last indulgence…
You know how it is when you’re standing in your outdoor shower, watching the dolphins playing in the waves and trying not to think about the 300+km of Eastern Cape roads you have to ensure later…
Category: quota photo
Busy skies…
Today’s QP is an image from a couple of weeks ago.
Those are Cape Gannets (Morus capensis) in a feeding frenzy over a shoal of fish just off the Struisbaai coast. It was a case of dive, eat, lift off, dive, eat, lift off and repeat. Also in on the act (at water level) were a few Cape Comorants (Phalacrocorax capensis).
Most of the birds around here are Cape birds. You may have noticed that.
One Last Shot
I’m heading out of Sheffield this afternoon, leaving the Steel City for the Groot Trek back home to Cape Town.
It’s been a good visit, and my last evening here was capped off by this sunset. Which was nice.
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The length of the summer days here is something I’d forgotten, but it’s basically light from 3:45am until almost 11pm. Returning home from the pub the other night, there was still light in the sky at midnight. I think I arrive back in Cape Town late afternoon tomorrow, and I’ll probably only get about an hour’s daylight before the winter night sets in.
Still, I bet South Africa will still be a bit warmer than South Yorkshire…
MagiSheep
My trip to Sheffield is coming to an end, so it was time for a springtime walk in the Peak District. And that was where we saw this amazing circus act:
There were lambs everywhere, which has made me anxious to get back to Cape Town and braai some chops.
Vole photos now live!
While Flickr sorted out their problem yesterday evening, I was out and about in Sheffield, testing the local beer. That meant that when their problem was sorted out, I wasn’t around to take advantage of their new found uploading ability.
Look, the voles are very cute and I would strongly advise that you go and look at them, but this is actually my favourite photo from yesterday:
That’s the dam wall (and quite a bit of the dam) at Redmires, just on the outskirts of Sheffield. I like the photo because it’s so simple. Flat water (flat, but defined, not mirroresque), a solid wall under Simpson’s skies, and that bit of foliage just to break up the geometry and avoid plagiarising Rothko. For the full effect, go large here.
But don’t forget those voles.