Distilling some kind of message for future historians while offering
entertainment at the same time is not as easy as I'd once thought, or
maybe it will be after I get back from the Kalahari as I have been
persuaded by my AD, Mike, and my best friend, Mike, (USA botanist), to
take a 'quick' trip up to Augrabies Falls on the Southern edge of the
Kalahari desert for 6 days.
The Kalahari is reputedly the 'cradle of mankind', or it was last time I
looked, but things change and anyways, the kalahari, 'is' one of Earth's
most desolate and primordial places, whatever your scientific belief, so
I'm taking extra fuel and water just in case. We'll shoot some scenes in
the desert, and also of the falls. There may be beautiful flower
displays as it's spring here. And it helps that Mike can identify every
known species up North because that's his speciality, so besides the
geological data he throws in, it's like having a mad scientist on board
because he's like the 'lawyer' in Fear and Loathing. You can't let him
out of the vehicle because he disappears into the landscape, tasting the
earth every hundred paces, looking for rare species with his GPS so he
can return (one day soon) and see how they're doing. All in all, a
thousand clicks there, and another thou back...add in another fifty
percent for 'exploration and mistakes', and you got close to a 3000
click round trip. so yeh..if there's am internet cafe at the 'Lost City
of the Kalahari, I'll update you from there...
schwann
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