We are world travelers again this week! This week are treated to one day in Tanzania with Albatrossity and the rest of the week in Namibia with lashonharangue.
Albatrossity
WaterGirl mentioned in the comments last week that she would be fine with just looking at the landscape images from Tanzania, even if there were no birds or animals. So I will try to include some, although you all need to know that it is well-nigh impossible to aim a camera anywhere in Ngorongoro Crater and not find an animal somewhere in the picture. The next few weeks will be images from our first full day in the crater. I took over 1100 pictures that day, reprocessed over 100 of them, and now have to whittle those down to a number that won’t numb you all in the next weeks. Here goes!
As previously mentioned, the crater floor (at 6000 ft above sea level) is a grassy plain (with a couple of lakes) of about 100 sq miles. The crater wall (the blue band at the top of this image, rises up 2000 ft from the floor, and will be in every landscape picture taken there. Here are a few critters as well as the landscape: Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer) and a male Ostrich (Struthio camelus). One of the buffalo, as seems to be typical for this species, seems to be taking offense at the presence of our vehicle. As you probably know from watching Marlin Perkins on Wild Kingdom in your misspent youth, this is a dangerous and short-fused creature, and kills several hundred people each year. Click here for larger image.
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