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On the side of a small hill, a grand old lady, Mrs Adansonia Digitata, dressed in lichen



bore a strong resemblance to her Australian cousin, Boab, whose nickname is Bottle Tree and whose formal name is Adansonia Gregorii.

Dream Weaver, having just returned from this area, I am reading this with a nostalgic pang. Again lovely narrative and beautiful pictures.

Magnificent Dream Weaver! Thanks for sharing!

Awesome landscape pic's, especially the Tsenze river crossing pic .
Thanks for sharing .

Love those trees and awesome pics. Thanks

Just a little note about Joubert:

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Just below the dam is the grave site of a 19th-century pioneer hunter, known only as Joubert. Joubert was an elephant hunter who supplied Albasini’s trading network with ivory.
The circumstances of his death are not known.

Hey Dream Weaver, I had to catch up from way back.........Great stuff!

Love your mongoose! and the BB trees!

I must agree with you, we also received many waves on the dirt roads and almost nothing on the tar roads....interesting indeed.....I agree with you.

Then the daily sightings notice boards Me and Skillie agreed that on our next trip we will give them a big miss....

Meandering Mouse - I hope you had a good visit to the area.

hilda - Thank you. Sharing is a pleasure.

Barryels - Thank you. That crossing is just lovely.

philip1 - You are welcome. Not much seems to be known about Joubert at all.

Super Mongoose - Glad you caught up.

Power poles in single file marched like a row of old fashioned porters bearing modern day necessities to the camps

Apt description

Love the boabab pic

That is actually a good sign! Electricity!

Baobabs stand out like majestic giants and are awesome trees.

Somehow electricity wires seem so out of place in the Park. However this has become an essential commodity in our lives today.

Agree with Trrrpie, beautiful Boababs!

Sharifa - Thank you and thank you again.

hilda - and yet there are some who say that the glow of a paraffin lamp and the scent of wood smoke are good enough to do without electricity on holiday. A different matter, of course, to live every day without it.

Trrp - Trrrrrr - Baobabs = natural wonder. Electricity = man made wonder.

Super Mongoose - if only they could speak to us.

Near the dam, a marabou eyed us from its tree top perch.



Apparently, in hot weather, a marabou has the rather unsanitary seeming habit of urinating down its legs to provide itself with evaporative cooling.

I had always believed that birds did their number ones and number twos all mixed up together, in a sort of combined one and a half, if you like. But Roberts Bird Guide, that trusty source, says that they urinate, so presumably that is what they do.

In looking for more information on this, I found out that some vultures share this method of keeping cool and that it has a name: urohydrosis. I also read that marabous’ legs are naturally black but that they look white due to the salt from the urine having crystallised on them.

Very interesting facts about the Marabou Dream Weaver!