Tag:escarpment
Today’s photo is of a Caterpillar D8 (or D9, I’m not a Cat expert) cutting through the top of an escarpment to create a new pass.
I took this photo of Windsor from Legoland as we were leaving in the evening. I really don’t think this view has changed much over the last 200 years when the Round Tower was raised a further 30 ft to be more imposing.
As with Hellscombe Cottage there’s a cottage at Aldbourne Warren that also sits snug to the base of the hill to their east. There must be some, most likely weather related, reason for this. Maybe it was close to water back in the day.
I drove this route a few times looking at my photo collection but my slides of the views from God’s Window don’t do justice to the scene I remember. Certainly one day I was up there the valleys and Lowveld to the east were shrouded by low clouds – because I was looking down on the top of them!
The Drakensberg, or Dragon Mountains, is the highest mountain range in South Africa, rising to 3,482 m (11,424 ft) at their highest point. The range is also sometimes called The Escarpment.
Where my previous drilling photos were located near the center of Concession 20 and in the northern part, this one (I’m fairly sure from its sequence in my collection) is from the southern end of the concession.
