Category:Travel
Since our pilot had been a pilot in the SADF, he preferred to fly his helicopter with the doors off! I thought this was brilliant! Although I had my set belt on to keep me attached to this quivering craft, I had the flexibility to lean out and take photos without having to worry about reflections from or scratches on the plexiglass windows.
The image below was taken about a month later but the key elements remains the same. In this photo, the sun has dipped below the horizon to camera left but is still illuminating the tops of the clouds. The moon is already bright in the sky.
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.
Here’s a wider view of the same sunrise as in yesterday’s photo. It shows our camp site at Bultfontein.
Still in the Free State, the Theunissen camp once again provided some wonderful sunsets. Plus, here we were actually camped on some higher ground on the edge of the pond rather than in the pond. Of course, we were aided in this by the fact the pond had water in it when we arrived.
As you can see, the ground in the camp was quite waterlogged, though this wasn’t the worst camp site flood by quite some measure. See the image at the bottom of the post for the most waterlogged camp site!