It must be one of africa’s most photographed mountains. But still. It is quite big. And it has snow. I took this a few hours ago while we were out radio tracking.
… and then i foolishly got the aforementioned (and photographed) landruiser stuck in mud. It took three hours to get us unstuck.
look closely at the bottom-right corner… “more fire” AND a picture of a hand-grenade. The cherry on top: an exclamation mark. Perhaps its a kind of inspirational statement? Or, dare we say it, inflammatory?
as an aside, this is the same truck, this time with a matatu launching itself towards oblivion. This is a steep incline, and there was at the time of the photo, a large truck squarely (and speedily) making progress in the opposite direction. Everyone survived, so it was ok.
Every time I do a town trip, I see the remains of an accident that has happened in the last few hours on these highways and byways. I try to explain to visitors that there is a peculiar mixture of fatalism, bad roads and very, very (very) bad driving.
lacking inspiration for wordage I pull out the trusty old wide-angle with circular polarising filter.. Bob’s your proverbial uncle, a subject for a post appears…
(half an hour before sunset, looking south, yesterday)
Environmentalism at its ultimate: the recycling of words. Thanks to littleyellowbird for the link.
After a 5am start, I looked back and saw cloud coming down from the hills. And the sun rising.
I felt I should be a little more understanding of narrow-minded provinciality after my last broadside… stumbled across one of my old favourite topics: “micro-nations”. And discovered that Sealand recently celebrated its 40th aniversary.
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