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10-08-2008, 12:20 AM
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| Per Ardua Ad Astra   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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 | Pics from Southern Africa Right some of you know and some of you don't that I have spent most of the last 7 months in Southern Africa so here are the best of my pics from there. Cape Town - From Waterfront  Cape Town - From Table Mountain  Chapman's Peak Drive - Sunset  Night Streets in Pretoria  Elephant Drinking - Kruger  Elephant Drinking - Kruger  Elephant Herd - Kruger  Giraffe Drinking - Kruger  Hawk - Kruger  Kudu Calf - Kruger  Leopard - Kruger  Hyena - Kruger  White Rhino - Kruger  Road in South Africa:  Orange River (South Africa/Namibia Border):  "Footprints in the Desert" - Dune 45, Namib Desert. Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia  Deadvlei, Namib Desert. Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia 
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10-08-2008, 12:21 AM
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| Per Ardua Ad Astra Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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| Hyaena, Etosha National Park, Namibia  Sunset, Etosha National Park, Namibia  Black Rhino (~500 left South of the Zambezi River), Etosha National Park, Namibia  Giraffe Drinking at Night, Etosha National Park, Namibia  "Lioness Yawning", Tautoma Game Lodge, Botswana  "Lion Cub", Tautoma Game Lodge, Botswana  Elephants from the Air, Okavango Delta, Botswana  Okavango Delta from the Air, Botswana   Okavango Sunset, Botswana,   Okavango Elephant, Botswana  Mokoroing, Okavango Delta, Botswana    Elephant, Chobe National Park, Botswana  Hippos, Chobe National Park, Botswana  Chobe National Park Sunsets, Botswana    Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe Side  [IMG]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2745853031_ae15f98541_b.jpgIMG]   Zambezi River Sunset, Zimbabwe/Zambia Border 
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10-08-2008, 12:38 AM
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| WW2 Veteran   Join Date: May 2004
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| Gnomey - fantastic photo's - on the trip up Table Mountain I thoght the way the car rotated 360 degrees added to that trip - and the Island of course in the Bay is Robben's Island - where Nelson Mandel spent much of his time in jail ! pity you missed Shamwari near Port Elizabeth - it's also a great reserve Cheers |
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10-08-2008, 12:41 AM
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| Per Ardua Ad Astra Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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| Yes Tom that was a good feature it adds a lot to the experience although I would of rather have walked up didn't really have the time. Yeah I didn't have time for everything. Going to go back a third time and do the Garden Route with a friend from Stellenbosch (if it all pans out) so maybe I'll do it then.
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10-08-2008, 01:10 AM
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| WW2 Veteran  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: London, England
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| Gnomey Magnifique !!!!! Ron
__________________ If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel circa 30 BCE  I was "Called-up" in Oct 1942Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps. Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany) Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn. I was "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947 |
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10-08-2008, 08:38 AM
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| Battle of Barking Creek   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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| Fantastic pix, Gnomey. Brilliant. What camera are you using if you don't mind me asking?
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