Daily Photo – Willem Pretorius Sunset

Daily Photo – Willem Pretorius Sunset
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Once again, at the right time of year, the sunsets in South Africa provide a fantastic display of color. This image is taken in the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve in the Free State.

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Daily Photo – Baboon

Daily Photo – Baboon
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About 30 miles south-east of Welkom you'll find the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve. I visited this reserve several times when I was working in the area.

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Daily Photo – Bultfontein Camp

Daily Photo – Bultfontein Camp
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Here's a wider view of the same sunrise as in yesterday's photo. It shows our camp site at Bultfontein.

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Daily Photo – Bultfontein Sunrise

Daily Photo – Bultfontein Sunrise
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After Heuningspruit we found ourselves camped near Bultfontein. This was almost certainly taken with my Tamron 500mm mirror lens as my records show the next longest lens I owned at the time was a 300mm.

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Daily Photo – Heuningspruit Sunrise

Daily Photo – Heuningspruit Sunrise
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Heuningspruit is a really small town, if it even qualifies as a town, about 18 miles north-east of Kroonstad in the Free State. I took this photo of the sunrise from our camp there.

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Daily Photo – Free State near Bethlehem

Daily Photo – Free State near Bethlehem
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Look closely and you can see our camp pretty much centered side to side and just below the horizon. This view is almost certainly to the south-east, the mountains in the distance being in Lesotho. Most of our camps lasted less than a month before we were off again, nomads in Toyota Hiluxes.

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