Southern nature
I am back home in the US after my South African adventures. Finally I can post some more photos! I had a wonderful trip, and I strongly recommend South Africa as a destination. I only saw the Cape Town region, but at least that part is wonderful. More on details later, now I just want to indulge you in some more photos from the Cape of Good Hope.
In order: Sunset rays at Hout Bay. Everlasting flowers (eterneller in Swedish). Wild zebra. Yellow flowers on the cliffs at Cape of Good Hope (Cape Point's lighthouse is in the background). Ostrich at the beach at the Cape, see the baby chick? (The floatings things are kelp, seaweed.)
UPDATE: More photos can be seen on Flickr, at this link.
11 comments:
LS harbors dreams of communing with nature. Immediately after snapping her photo of the ostrich family she dropped her camera, and ran towards them flapping her arms chicken-style screaming, "I want to be your friend." She had no luck with the ostriches, but the people of South Africa can't wait for her return.
Haha! I would easily have hugged the rock dassie, but NOT the ostrich. Imagine an ostrich biting you in the nose.
For the rest of you, Cynthia has a great blog about her experiences in Madagascar, check it out.
I love the sunspot on the ocean! And the view and all the other pics too. More please.
Somewhere I have a picture of an ostriche attacking our car, I will look for it tonight. It lived in a fenced area "car safari" in Israel. I have heard they attack shiny things.
By the way, my word verification is SYSTRA!
ha, SYSTRA. I bet I am the only one that get that.
n'systra - that is plural in Jamtish (a dialect of Swedish)
Olle, har du nån förklaring till uttrycket hörpasnörpa? Mamma sa alltid det till mig när jag var lessen.
Ah, I need to go to Cape of Good Hope and do some kayaking while the pengiuns are watching. I looked at the Flickr album, fantastic pictures LS. Exotic plants and bugs, of course.
I also would like to know why a certain someone named his/her plastic orange teddy bear 'Mangold' (=swiss chard). I am sure that is a story worth telling. :)
Also, I think the word EH is talking about above is 'hurpasnurpan'. Sounds like something our grandmother KE would have said.
Mangold is not plastic, he still lives at Barking Dog plaza. Wasn´t he the one who always got hurt in our teddy bear games?
I have a strong feeling you´re the one who have come up with most of the teddy bear names. Especially Snorbjörn, one of my more recent teddybears. Recent as in 15 years ago or something.
Didn´t you name Mangold too?
I have no memory of coming up with those names :) Maybe, but I don't remember. My animals had normal names, but I might have been the culprit in naming my younger sibling's critters. I don't remember. But I take no responsibility for the name Puttefnask, that was someone else! :P
Som pojken sa när tanten frågade vad han hette...
Puttefnask.... Putte efter pappa.
hihi
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