Insecticide

I'm so glad it is fresh odourless DOOM I didn't like the stale stinky DOOM. Wierd how it's on it's side, but then maybe DOOM is like that.

Meat Dave

A local buther shop, notice the upside down head, he keeps it untill last to prove which animal it is you are buying. The butcher is quite a nice bloke, these are some of my students buying some meat.

Work

I know I've only been puting fun looking stuff on, so for those of you who are wondering what I'm doing with the rest of my time, here are some examples. 

(sorry only low resolution vid, but youget the idea) 

                                               Some of our 'Too cool for words' 3rd years.

 Mr Festus Kanyanya, one of the fine plumbing instructors at Zambezi Vocational Training Centre

 Yes they even do it here. Australian training package has a lot to answer for.

South Africa trip

I was invited down to South Africa (Johannesburg) for the anual in country meeting of volunteers, it just happened to be the 60th year of Australian Volunteers celebration, so that was a part of it too.
While in Johannesburg, one sees some interesting things. JB is big, including the metro area has about 6.3 million, so is bigger than Sydney, it is a city of stark contrasts, haves and have nots. Virtualy all of the BMWs and Mercs you see in Oz are made in this city. Nuclear power plants, big freeways, slums and leafy street suburbs with electric fences on virtually every house, I recon you need a couple of those nuclear power plants just to run the electric fences (I'm not joking).

 I hope that tailgate has good latches.

Mandela square in Santon Mall

This one's for Eli, a real Messerschmidt, this one crashed, look at that prop, this was in the war museum, which was the place we had the conference, so we could look around at lunchtime. Quite an amazing place.

This is a 105mm German Howitzer, this thing could shoot more than 10km, so it must have been one heck of a pop when this happened. WW2.

Rain at last

Now here is an event, I remember growing up in the deasert in South Australia, and the relief when the short rain season came,.... Oh what a feeling,... well we are experiencing that same thing here now, massive lightning/thunder storms, it is sooooo refreshing after the dry.

(yes this was hand held, but click on it anyway, it is more intricate than it loks on the small view)

Yet more lovely people, took me out to the Namibian side of Chobi park this morning and we didn't see much game, some Zebra and Water buck and lots of birds, but we had a lovely lunch under a shady tree on the banks of one of the tributary rivers.
We only had two bricks with us and the sausages were burning so we found some props to lift the rack up.
I have never before had Elephant Dung smoked Boer wurst but, but do you know what, it's yummy, and the smell of the smoldering dung is not unpleasant at all.

On the way there, yes I kid you not.

I was fishing after work one day this week and fortunatly I had my camera, this is a colony of Carmine Bee Eaters, they were being hunted by a hawk, on the banks of the Zambezi, very spectacular.
Like all of the photos on this blog, click them to enlarge.

The Bee Eaters nesting, they dig into the sand, down to nearly a metre.
You can see a couple of them having a teritorial battle mid air in the centre of the shot.

Their 'bogeyman'

  The panic when the bogeyman comes

Finding a resting spot waiting for the predator to get lost.