Roberta Writes – Sunday Stills: Iconic Places and Reena’s Xploration Challenge #320 #photographs #SouthAfrica #poetry

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Two weekends ago, Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge was iconic places. You can view her post here: https://secondwindleisure.com/2024/02/18/sunday-stills-how-iconic-are-your-favorite-places-and-spaces/

A few iconic places I’ve visited in South Africa:

Ghost Mountain in Kwa-Zulu Natal
The Waterfront in Cape Town with Table Mountain in the background
Estuary at St Lucia at sunset
Hippos on the bank of the St Lucia Estuary
The Buffalo River in Kwa-Zulu Natal
Waterfall at Fugitive’s Drift in Kwa-Zulu Natal

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #320

We have a word prompt for this week.

Choose any one word from the following to use in your piece.

  • abridged
  • compressed
  • diminished
  • underplayed

You can join in here: https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/reenas-xploration-challenge-320/

Life moves on (shadorma)

Disheveled

Diminished by age

Their purpose

Completed

Baby birds independent

Old homes abandoned

Abandoned weaver bird nests
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      1. I read a biography of Enos Mills, an amazing naturalist from the turn of the 19th century, who spent months–years–studying the same spot in nature and recorded how one nest would be built, abandoned, taken over by another animal, abandoned again, occupied by another. I think these were mostly in tree trunks. Maybe that’s the difference.

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  7. I have never seen a picture of hippos relaxing like that. It’s funny how cartoons stick in your mind; I remember a simple one from decades ago, two hippos standing in the river and one says to the other ‘Funny, I could have sworn it was Thursday.’

    I read what would now be called a YA novel when I was a young teen and the heroine arrives at Cape Town by ship. The description of Table Mountain was so vivid I really wanted to go there. If I ever did go there I must arrive by ship!

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    1. Hi Wayne, Ghost Mountain is the ancient burial ground for the chiefs of a local tribe. It is believed to be haunted and people hear drumming in the mountain at night and see burning fires.the cable car building is right on the side of Table Mountain.

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  15. Great images – I love the waterfall into the pit but where I come from abandoned mining pits, or naturals, are favorite places of water moccasins, copperhead and cottonmouth snakes. Eek. Not to ruin an otherwise delightful Sunday, just an observation. I always wonder where the waterfalls are they use for shampoo commercials and movies…

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    1. Hi Phil, there are plenty of venomous snakes in the area where that waterfall is. I had a green mamba drop out of a tree right in front of me during one walk. It gave me quite a turn. You are right, shampoo adverts are filmed in beautiful dells.

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      1. Arrrr! In the Boy Scouts we had a cottonmouth fall out of a tree into a canoe. The Scoutmaster grabbed the snake shotgun and blew a hole in the boat. An event I fictionalized for a short story. Snakes. No thank you😫

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  18. Terrific shots. My two favorites were the hippos and the waterfall.

    I enjoyed your poem. It would be interesting to learn if weavers ever reuse a nest.

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  21. Amazing nature, incredible phots, and beautiful poem. The forest around buffalo river is so thick and breathtaking. The Hippos look great but I know they are dangerous. It’s amazing that their closest relatives are the whales.

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  29. Beautiful photos of iconic places in S. Africa, Robbie. It was fun seeing Table Mountain in the background since another blogger from my part of the world is there! And a lovely poem about baby birds leaving the nest, though the nest looks a bit sad about it. 🙂

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