I got the travel itch and headed out up the West Coast and found some pictures along the way.
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Sunset on Signal Hill.
I went on Friday to see the sunset from Signal Hill.
The Twelve Apostles in the fading light
Clouds obscure the sun.
I tried making a gif. Here it is. Will it work? Dunno
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Blaauberg from a Different Perspective.
On Sunday I saw the famous Blaauberg view of Table Mountain, but from a completely different angle.
Have a look at these pictures.
Robben Island
The chalet that was a barrack room for the gunners.
The chalet and all points north (and west).
Inside the chalet. A bit crowded, but with a view like that, why sit inside?
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Surfing Pictures – Long Beach
Amanda and I went off to Scarborough to take astronomy pictures. On the way, we stopped at Long Beach and got some lekker pictures using the 100 – 400 mm telephoto lens.
Here are a few of the pictures I took. The rest are here:
I spent Saturday and Sunday helping out on an archaeological dig in Betty’s Bay sorting through shells trying to find anything that wasn’t a shell.
It was great.
The dig site with Jayson Orton leading the excavation.
Richard trying to figure out if the thing in the tray is a shell or not.
Rule number one. Don’t touch your face.
Betty’s bay sunrise
The shells in the ground
Jayson’s marked out layers.
The sieve for extracting the interesting stuff from the ground,
I joined an art course and was required to use ink and bleach on paper as the medium. I was very dubious, but with a little research and a lot of experimentation, I started to get some interesting effects. This is an early example of my experiments. I cheated the white is soft white pastel.
What is it? Can’t you see? It is a piece of drift wood! I thought that much would be obvious. Ok this is it.
And here is a later more practiced version.
It is amazing what you can do with strange media isn’t it?
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Pelagic Birding
I love travelling at the best of times but passes are the cherry on the top. The Burgers Pass is no exception. Burgers pass is just outside Montagu in the Western Cape.
And it looks like this looking back.
Looking forward, it looks like this. Not too impressive.
This is the approach. Doesnt look like much does it?
Shirley Temple Black who had three careers died today.
She was a child actor, a mother and wife and she was a business woman and diplomat. You don’t get more succesful than that.
I saw a quote of hers that I liked.
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus at the age of six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.”
Mind you the other quote, come philosophy that works for me is:
“Some people are stuck on this image of the little girl,” she once said. “She is not me. We shouldn’t live in the past; my life is now.”