Category Archives: Africa
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Landscape (IV)
6Tuesday 05 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My fourth bash at the ‘Landscape’ theme of the Weekly Photo Challenge is from Tenerife. Hope you enjoy this entry. …
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Giraffe Photography ~ 3/3
17Thursday 21 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
In my brief look at photographing that majestic animal, the giraffe, I have taken hundreds of shots over the years …
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Giraffe Photography ~ 2/3
9Sunday 17 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Photographing giraffes is fun. Not only are they photogenic creatures, they love to pose too… but that’s not all. They …
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Giraffe Photography ~ 1/3
16Sunday 10 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Capturing wildlife, photographically speaking, is always an amazing experience. Whether it’s a lioness on the prowl across the plains of Africa, …
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Mt. Kenya
4Thursday 24 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
January Late afternoon, around 5:30 The foothills of Mt Kenya Glow from the afternoon African sun Like a magic carpet, …
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Camel Trekkin’
18Thursday 10 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Camel trekking is a blast…. Never done it? Well, you’ve just found something that should be added to your ‘to …
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Love this guy
5Wednesday 09 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Serengeti Sunrise
Leave a commentThursday 03 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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“Open the damned door; my head’s stuck !!”
5Tuesday 09 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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East Africa: everyday life
9Thursday 21 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This all started out as a post about open markets of East Africa and then posted some pics of the wonderful …
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East Africa: roadside life
6Saturday 02 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
After looking at the open market style of East African market trading and the natural exuberance of the African kids, I wanted to share …
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East Africa: Shopping
23Sunday 26 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
On the whole, shopping malls leave me cold. In general I have little desire to trudge my way around endless corridors of …
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East Africa: The Kids
24Saturday 18 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Travelling is, or was for a long time to me anyway, a way of life, and then became one of …
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Morning stroll
6Thursday 09 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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The Fish Eagle
12Tuesday 24 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
We have a lot of bird-life where we live, and the sounds never stop – something I’ll never tire of. …
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Vultures, hmm….
2Thursday 19 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I was sat outside on a rock this morning taking a break from the farm chores, watching the birds up …
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Chimpanzee Rescue
4Saturday 07 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I love chimps, in fact that statement applies to all such hairy relatives of our species. I’ve told it’s probably …
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Truck Stuck in the Serengeti
6Sunday 01 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. Adventure travel is rightly famous for its ‘adventure’, and none more so than overland travelling in a converted large …
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Mister Poo, the African version
15Tuesday 17 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Last springtime, here on our farm here in southwestern Türkiye, I was shovelling recycled fodder, courtesy of a gang of local goats, …
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Memories of Zanzibar
11Tuesday 17 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Palm Trees . Turquoise Seas . Sunsets from Stonetown .
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Zanzibarian Seafood Platter Anyone?
11Tuesday 20 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Memories of a night in Zanzibar…. Belated honeymoon The bosses birthday Private meal arranged on the beach Seafood platter arrived …
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Massage or Mugging?
16Sunday 07 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In the mid 90s, back when I was a respectable office geek, my late wife and I liked to take …
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Sunrise Over Mt Kenya
8Thursday 27 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
One of a series of sunrise shots I took from a distant ridge near to Rumuruti, in Northern Kenya, …
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Star Wars & An Oasis
8Sunday 13 April, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Travelling through Tunisia in North Africa is an interesting pastime in my opinion. Sure, you’ll see not a lot for …
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Salt Lake City It Wasn’t
9Saturday 05 April, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Driving across the barren desert landscape of southern Tunisia in summer can be quite foreboding. There is not a lot …
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Sunset In The Sahara
28Sunday 30 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Having travelled across some interesting terrain in various countries on different continents, nothing quite prepares one for the sheer beauty …
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Kerkennah – A Tunisian Island (Part Three)
8Sunday 23 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Fishing was the main livelihood of the islanders, and taking a camel for a day, or a pony & trap …
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Kerkennah – A Tunisian Island (Part Two)
6Sunday 16 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
It’s a windy old place at times, and pretty damned roasting during the summer months – North Africa being where …
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Kerkennah – A Tunisian Island (Part One)
7Sunday 09 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Never heard of it? Well neither had I… Kerkennah is a small windswept island off the south-east coast of the …
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Deep Inside Pyramids Are Scary Places
38Friday 20 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Ok, hands up who has been into space? No, me neither, but I have done some daft things in my …
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Dar es Salaam
9Saturday 07 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
A few places in the world really stand out in one’s memory. Sometimes it’s just the name of a place …
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Midnight: Elephant Meets Accountant
7Wednesday 28 August, 2013 by Uncle Spike
The beautiful Serengeti in north Tanzania, is for me, one of the most mind-blowing places on earth. The diversity and …
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