Wild dogs!!

One of the few African animals I had never seen and really really wanted to. The bunch of pups had been messing about for a while when mum showed up to share a chunk of some poor beast.

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Looking for Water

December 4th 2016
The PhD brought me to South Africa. Fieldwork to date had involved two month-long trips to Ethiopia last year and now I was on the hunt for another type of shallow aquifer with the potential to provide water for irrigation rather than relying on increasingly inconsistent rains. The timing was unfortunately impeccable as southern Africa is currently (in November 2016) two years into its worse droug ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Limpopo

After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more

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