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| Sunday, 3-Aug-2003 00:00 |
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More Safari Photos
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Elephant taking a mud bath
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Female Elephant
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Elephant family group taking an evening drink
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Elephant skull - this elephant was killed for its ivory
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Hippos swimming
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Hippos on a mud bank
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Elephants taken at various reservations in Kenya and Tanzania. Hippos taken at Manyara in Tanzania
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| Saturday, 2-Aug-2003 00:00 |
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Safari Photos
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Cheetah family
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Mum gets up to look around
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Cheetah mum goes for a stroll
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Pride of lions resting under a tree
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Lion eating a wildebeest
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African sunset
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A long time ago (10 years next month to be exact) I went on a safari to Africa organized by the Financial Times. This was a first class effort guided by Iain Douglas-Hamilton and his wife Oria, both of "Save the Elephants" fame (http://www.save-the-elephants.org/) and I thoroughly recommend such a top of the line safari. Going to Africa is a pretty big thing for most of us anyway so it makes sense to pay that little bit extra and get expert guidance rather than paying less and getting little or no guidance. Trust me you really won't see many animals unless they are pointed out to you or the guide knows where to go and wandering around the place not seeing animals is tedious in the extreme.
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| Wednesday, 30-Jul-2003 00:00 |
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Our Cat - Inu
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Inu is Japanee for Dog. Either you are like me and find something amusing about having a cat called dog or you decide I'm seriously deranged. We got him when we lived in suburban Northern Califormia, but he settled down to life in slighty more rural France in days.
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| Tuesday, 29-Jul-2003 00:00 |
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My wife the photographer
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Preparing for the 2002 Tour de France in Luxemburg
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Taking pictures by the river Go in Japan
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Visitors to the exhibition in Kobe
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My wife is a keen photographer and far better at it that I am. I quite like taking pictures of her taking pictures....
She had an exhibition of her work in Kobe, Japan in June whcih was a great success and you can see some of here work on her webpage linked at the left.
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| Saturday, 26-Jul-2003 00:00 |
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As an introduction I present our Mas Provencal
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Roses, Cacti and the shutters of our "library"
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Monring sunlight catches our vines
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Morning sunlight shining through the olove
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We live about 10km inland from Cannes in a heavily restored farmhouse that is at least 200 years old surrounded by olive trees, fruit trees, cacti and flowers. The back garden (west facing) often gets amazing sunsets while (as you might expect) the east facing front garden gets beautiful morning sunrises.
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