Nelis' Photo Blog

Maybe I was in grade 7 when our English (second language) teacher taught us a poem telling the story of a train journey from Worcester crossing the Hex River mountains. He got so excited that I still remember him exclaiming, "out of De Doorns she thundered, and over the vast Karoo!". This came to mind when we recently travelled from Britstown to Carnarvon. Therefore I tried to capture the vastness of this little part of the Karoo with a panorama. Do yourself a favour and open the photo on a bigger screen, zoom till the height fills the screen and then pan from the one side to the other (covering about 150 degrees). PS: I found the poem (Crossing the Hex Mountains by John Runcie) on the Internet, but the line I remember reads, "Then out of De Doorns she thundered, and over the starved Karoo". Did the teacher change the wording to "vast Karoo" or was it changed in my memory because I have experienced the Karoo? SHARE this page OR share the blog's link: h

When visiting coastal areas from time to time I've been fascinated by the long streams of birds flying in one direction in the morning and coming back in the evening. The Cape Cormorant (Trekduiker) may fly up to 40km to a feeding location (following the movements of schooling fish) and can dive to a maximum depth of 37m. Their population have declined from millions in the 1970s to "endangered" in recent times - attributed to shortage of food due to commercial overfishing. Click on the images to view them in full.  Previous post of sea birds:  https://ndt-photoblog.blogspot.com/2023/03/sea-birds-at-gansbaai.html SHARE this page OR share the blog's link: https://ndt-photoblog.blogspot.com/  FOLLOW this blog through the subscription widget on the sidebar.  [Click on the "3 lines" on the top left of the home page to open the sidebar.]