This is the Gariep (aka Orange) River sinking into the granite bedrock just before plunging off the cliff at Augrabies Falls, in the Northern Cape of South Africa.
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Basks in wadi, Augrabies National Park, South Africa. Warning, image (below the fold) is a bit large.
Two years ago today, on a weekday afternoon during rush our, the Interstate 35W bridge, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed into the Mississippi river. Thirteen people died and about 145 people suffered injuries.
This is what I posted on the second anniversary. Yesterday was the fifth.
I have a childhood memory of a troop of baboons, waiting among nearby rocks on a sun baked kopje, taking notice of ne