Some Namib-dwellers – plants and animals – look extremely tough, “hard-shelled”, “brutal”.
Others, however, have a surprisingly “delicate” appearance.
I have no idea of even the common name of the pictured example.
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This post and the next two in this series are devoted to striking examples of plants that have evolved/adapted to survive in the least-rainy part of the Namib Desert.
The featured image’s stark centre of attention is (I am almost sure) a particularly hardy member of the geranium family.
It is probably one of the “Sarcocaulons” – members of what was formerly the generally-recognised genus Sarcocaulon.
Since 1996 these plants are usually numbered as members of the genus Monsonia.
One species – which may or may not be the one pictured above – contains a highly flammable resin which persists even when the plant is “dead”…or “dead”-ish.
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A hunch about the “castles”…
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Our vantage point and the time/date were essentially “as per immediately-preceding post”, but instead of looking due west, to the Atlantic, this post has heads and camera turned in other directions.
To our east, south and north, the view was almost 100% “dunescape”.
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Construction of a cableway on Mount Etna began in the 1950s.
The first version began operations in 1966.
Etna first “intervened” in 1971, destroying the cableway’s upper section.
Various other eruptions have since wreaked varying degrees of destruction, resulting in repeated closures, rebuilds and realignments.
Since the spring of 2023, the cableway and its (new) cable cars have been as they appear in my photo.
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Today’s image finds us still in “our” bus.
In relation to yesterday’s post, we were another six minutes further up Etna’s southern flank.
When I took the photo it was 10. 05 am on 30 September 2023, and we were probably circa 1300 metres above sea level.
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The image is a “looking down, from space”, google-view of Mt Etna and its eastern Sicilian surrounds, in summertime…no snow.
Marked thereon are most of the human settlements relevant to the “Aspects of Etna” series-proper.
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Hmmmmmmmm…
Look!… flying, up there, in the sky….is it a pig, or a pie?
Pelican Yoga wishes you all a happy new year, regardless!
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As the full moon continued to ascend over Lake Monger – and danced in and out of clouds – the sun had just set.
The pelican-sky image was captured within a few seconds of the previous post’s featured photo.
I looked left for the moon; the pelican was to our right.
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