Showcasing the beauty of Mother Nature
For the coming year, I plan to continue to challenge myself to explore new places, walk my own path, and plan adventures to the places that call to me.
That’s what I did in 2016, and it has been a fabulous year.
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My first day in Buhoma in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, my group took an afternoon village walk with a local guide. It was a very interesting experience, as we had the opportunity to tour the local school and meet one of the teachers and some of the students, walk through the village market and trek up the hill to visit the pygmy village.
I must admit, the walk up the the pygmy village had me winded and left me very worried for the gorilla trek that happened the following day! Here I was huffing and puffing along, and had young children passing me carrying large containers of water home; it certainly made me appreciate the luxury of opening a tap at home for water even more than I did before.
After we left the pygmy village, we stopped to talk with locals making banana beer and banana gin (I passed up the opportunity to try either), and were treated to another dance by a group of locals.
Near one of the shops in the village I spotted this sign; what an excellent example of diversified business strategies!
These are the pictures that jumped out at me to post today; I’m not sure why, but I decided to run with it. 🙂
These are from my time in Damaraland, Namibia. We had the opportunity to explore the Twyfelfontein World Heritage Site to see the bushman rock art. The rock art depicts people, the animals and birds of the region, and even the location of both permanent and seasonal waterholes.
If you’d like to learn more about the area, here is a link to a wiki page about it.
It’s seems like such a long time since I have done one of these posts! I was planning to do one last week, but woke up Sunday morning to a computer meltdown instead – not quite how I was planning to spend my day.
I’ve got a bit of a mixed bag from the last two weeks… Fingers crossed I can get back into the routine of weekly photos again 🙂
Have a great week everyone!
This is a first edit of a photo pulled from deep in the archives, shot with my first dSLR camera and lens combo while on a cruise, January 2012. I’m really liking how this has turned out 🙂
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I could have shared any number of photos taken along the river near my old home, with lovely sunrises and mountains… but this spoke to me more. I recently took a bird watching trip along the Kazinga channel in Uganda, and this village was at the turn around point for the tour. For a photo challenge topic of water, a photo shot from the water, of a village that completely relies on the water, seemed fitting.
Here’s a blog post that hits two of the WPC photo challenge topics at once. When I read the description for the edge challenge, I knew that some of the shots I took while flying between camps in Kenya would be a great choice to share. But being on those planes ties so well into the topic of nostalgia for me. Being in a small plane (especially up front) takes me right back to being a kid, heading up with my Dad in a two or four seater plane, and flying around either sightseeing, or heading to my Grandparent’s cottage. Great memories and such fun times 🙂
