Buried
Northern Kenya. 11pm. No road. No cell coverage. No help. A historic event with a full tale that can really only be captured by the imagination. I’d put words to it, but it wouldn’t do it justice.
Midnight Stars
BWM staff retreat outside of Chattanooga, TN. Captured this 20 second exposure at the VBO place we rented. Beautiful stars.
Elephant Herds
The Chobe National Park, Botswana is one of the premier parks in Southern Africa. Dry season, although not picturesque, affords incredible opportunities to see wildlife who flock to the Zambezi river to drink and cool off. Today’s expedition brought us close to nearly 250 elephants along the water’s edge; among them new-borns and adolescents.
I Was Here
Another flag in the sand so I can say “I was here”. Oh, and yes, that is a 360ft drop 18 inches to my right.
Time Lapse
In dry season, the flow volume over Victoria Falls recedes significantly, revealing pools of water carved out in the basalt river bottom. In some cases, these pools are cut at the extreme edge of the falls, allowing swimmers to peer over the 300 ft + precipice to the gorge below [note: not for the faint of heart]. Here Codie launches off a 15 ft ledge into “Devil’s Pool” which I caught in a time-lapse shot.
Victoria Falls
Here’s a few clips from Wikipedia on the falls: Victoria falls is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer, is believed to have been the first European to view the Victoria Falls. While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, it is claimed to be the largest. This claim is based on a width of 1,708 metres (5,600 ft)and height of 108 meters (360 ft), forming the largest sheet of falling water in the world. The recent geological history of Victoria Falls can be seen in the form of the gorges below the falls. The basalt plateau over which the Upper Zambezi flows has many large cracks filled with weaker sandstone.Over at least 100,000 years, the falls have been receding upstream through the Batoka Gorges, eroding the sandstone-filled cracks to form the gorges. The falls have already started cutting back the next major gorge, at the dip in one side of the “Devil’s Cataract” (also known as “Leaping Waters”) section of the falls.
Respite
Debriefing at the Zambezi Sun resort in Livingstone, Zambia – named after the famous explorer and missionary who was the first European to see Victoria Falls, now named among the top Natural Wonders of the World. Resort hotels are not the usual fair of my frequent visits to the Continent, however, when taking visitors unused to the rigors imposed by culture and rough living, they provide a necessary respite and allow us to debrief amid hot showers and familiar food.
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