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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories: Mechanics and machines!
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories. Places we've been, things we've done. The joys and surprises of what you can find and "shoot" if you keep your eyes open. Tuesday, April 10, 2012. On returning to the camp I decided to check under the hood. The filler cap from my engine had fallen off! So I took a pair of my underpants, most expendable item I could find and wedged them in place of the missing cap. What else could I do? After about 1/2 an hour of fiddling they managed to locate a second hand cap for me,...
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories: April 2010
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories. Places we've been, things we've done. The joys and surprises of what you can find and "shoot" if you keep your eyes open. Thursday, April 29, 2010. Back on-line at last . and on with the trip. Well, over the last few days there have been apparent "upgrades" taking place to the Seacom undersea cable. Well, it seems like we're functioning again. So back to the trip. Just after mid-day we arrived at Urikaruus. And this the view from the front of the dining room! Amazing :...
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories: Urikaruus ... final day
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories. Places we've been, things we've done. The joys and surprises of what you can find and "shoot" if you keep your eyes open. Monday, May 31, 2010. Urikaruus . final day. So back at camp I return to some of my smaller friends again to wrap up our stay at this charming little bush camp. First up my old friend the lady of the lodge, the garden orb web spider. She was still around and there were some interesting developments at the web! Due to the cryptic colouring of these h...
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories: In and around Urikaruus - part 4
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories. Places we've been, things we've done. The joys and surprises of what you can find and "shoot" if you keep your eyes open. Tuesday, May 18, 2010. In and around Urikaruus - part 4. As I mentioned in my previous post. This day started well and steadily improved! Firstly I had spotted the this spider. In the early morning light, then as I moved around I saw this one in a bush nearby. Do you see the curious ant possibly heading into the danger zone? Popped in too,. Neither ...
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories: March 2012
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories. Places we've been, things we've done. The joys and surprises of what you can find and "shoot" if you keep your eyes open. Friday, March 30, 2012. Our final days in the Kalagadi. It's been a long time since I've posted here. Quite scary really when you look back and see just how much time has past, and how quickly the days, months and even years fly by. June 2010 was my last post getting close to two years later! As we headed south and west it got closer and closer, and...
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories: Urikaruus, the final episode! (almost!)
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories. Places we've been, things we've done. The joys and surprises of what you can find and "shoot" if you keep your eyes open. Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Urikaruus, the final episode! We had decided to head off in the direction of the lion kill we had seen the day before to see if perhaps there were now other predators or scavengers nosing around what the lions had left behind. Well we were in for a surprise, the lions were still there! And just as it started it was over!
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories: June 2010
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories. Places we've been, things we've done. The joys and surprises of what you can find and "shoot" if you keep your eyes open. Monday, June 7, 2010. On the road to Nossob. After a leisurely start to the morning we packed up and moved off from Urikaruus around 9am, to head off to our next camp which is to be Nossob. This camp is about 100km from Urikaruus and we anticpated that it would take us the best part of the day to get there. But, we weren't about to let that spoil th...
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories: The Urikaruus story continues
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories. Places we've been, things we've done. The joys and surprises of what you can find and "shoot" if you keep your eyes open. Monday, May 24, 2010. The Urikaruus story continues. Having had the excitement of the lions at lunchtime we moved back to our camp, on the way we passed a large herd of springbok. Right on the roadside. This opportunity allowed me to get a real close-up of some of these iconic animals. And then we spotted this little darlings of the desert! We then ...
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories: May 2010
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories. Places we've been, things we've done. The joys and surprises of what you can find and "shoot" if you keep your eyes open. Monday, May 31, 2010. Urikaruus . final day. So back at camp I return to some of my smaller friends again to wrap up our stay at this charming little bush camp. First up my old friend the lady of the lodge, the garden orb web spider. She was still around and there were some interesting developments at the web! Due to the cryptic colouring of these h...
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories: In and around Urikaruus - part 5
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Ivan Andersen's Photos and Stories. Places we've been, things we've done. The joys and surprises of what you can find and "shoot" if you keep your eyes open. Wednesday, May 19, 2010. In and around Urikaruus - part 5. Well having given you some bugs (spiders! And birds in my previous post. We'll move to the bigger beasts again for a while! As I had said we were told that there had been a kill just 8km from our camp. There were apparently four lions. Panthera leo) that had taken down a blue wildebeest.