One night in very early January Leo and I went on an extraordinary nighttime tour of the beach. A marine biologist picked us up where we were staying in the town of St. Lucia (South Africa) in his…well, I guess you could call it a safari bus, drove us to Cape Vidal (where we [...]
-Michelle, posting from Wisconsin
Mission Rocks is a place along the east coast of South Africa between Durban and the Mozambique border (more specifically, about halfway between the town of St. Lucia and Cape Vidal). The waves there crash into shelves of rocks that are caked with plant and animal seashore life, most of which I could not [...]
I decided to take some “abstract” photos during a fireworks show a couple of weeks ago.
-Michelle, posting from Wisconsin
We stayed at a small resort in the town of St. Lucia, several blocks away from the small but busy downtown area. (I think because this is a World Heritage Site, no resorts or even artificial lights are allowed on the coast.) One could not sleep past 7am, because right at [...]
There are varied festivities and customs practiced on Lantern Festival (in Taiwan) not only provide celebrants with rich entertainment, like the historical-theme lantern displays and riddles, but are also instructive, by their expression of ancient wisdom. The variety of splendid lantern features different folk art techniques, impressing these arts deep in the hearts and minds [...]
The Lantern Festival in Taiwan, also known as Shang Yuan Festival, takes place on the fifteenth day of the first moon. Last in a series of springtime celebrations, this “second New Year” is widely celebrated by families all around Taiwan. This one of the lanterns that was being hung around the Chiang Kai-shek [...]
We saw these hippos on our boat tour of the St. Lucia estuary (St. Lucia, South Africa). Despite not being one of the “Big 5,” or those game animals most dangerous to hunt, hippos are responsible for more human deaths in Africa than any of the “Big 5″ (lion, elephant, cape buffalo, leopard, and [...]