Water Serpent

But… not. Although it seemed like it wanted to be.

This is an African Darter, doing its thing in the dam at Vredenheim last month.
Bigger on black here.

I have loads of photos to sort out and upload and no time to do them at the moment (football last night, dinner tonight, Agulhas tomorrow). So this one is being chucked onto Flickr as a quota photo and will be out of order when I actually get round to uploading everything else.

Striped things

The tigers weren’t the only striped things we saw at Vredenheim last week:

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I spotted this wasp and there were also these zebras:

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The difference being (aside from the size and the taste, obviously), that one set of stripes is to make potential predators more aware of the animal and the other is to make them less aware of the animal.

All of which brought me to thinking why we have potentially unnoticeable zebra crossings on our roads and not the far more obvious wasp crossings?

Is it really any wonder that the rules surrounding these road markings are so poorly observed when we choose to deliberately camouflage them?

Fin

There’s nothing left in the tank after a busy day with friends in Stellenbosch.
Firstly, great fun with big cats and milkshakes at Vredenheim (photos will follow), followed by a quick remortgage of the house and a picnic lunch at Spier and then a trip to the Van Ryn’s Brandy distillery: Oh my stars, what a place!

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More of that please…

Home for a braai and it’s small wonder that my ankle is the size of a melon this evening.

And so now some Myprodol and some rest, because we’re going to do it all over again tomorrow.