Upington

 

 

 Orange River.

 

 

 

 

 Dates, sweet and luscious,  ripening near Kakamas on the Orange River.

 Dates grow well at Upington. The first palms are said to have originated
during the Anglo-Boer War, when British soldiers received dates as part of their rations.
The men pushed the date stones into the mud on the riverbanks and many thousands
of palm trees grew.

 NORTHERN CAPE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The great red dunes of the roaring sands.

 

 

 

 

 

 Nest of sociable weaver birds  in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

 

 

 

 

 Kalahari Gemsbok National Park.

 

 The administration centre of the Kalahari national park at Tweerivieren.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Photo JK & B Chodacki, Kalahari ( Easter) 1987