The Lone Springbok

Basks in wadi, Augrabies National Park, South Africa. Warning, image (below the fold) is a bit large.

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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.
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

You really ought to have used a thumbnail. That pic is over 1MB. That size may be cheaper than it's ever been to store and transmit, but it is murder on portable low-bandwidth devices or slower connections.