Africa vignette #7
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rscThis one can't be done without a picture.
The lodge at Ngorongoro looks out over the crater, with Lake Magadi front and center. But the Tuesday morning sunrise seems to have been a lucky fluke; the other two mornings there, we're wrapped in the cloud that tends to sit on the rim in the mornings. But on Thursday I look out just around sunrise time, and there's no horizon, and therefore no sunrise, except -- there's this lake; so I immediately call out to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jwg, who has just stepped out of the shower, "You should come and look at this before it changes." So he does, without waiting to dry off, and takes several pictures, of which this one is the best, although even it doesn't entirely capture the magic:
The lodge at Ngorongoro looks out over the crater, with Lake Magadi front and center. But the Tuesday morning sunrise seems to have been a lucky fluke; the other two mornings there, we're wrapped in the cloud that tends to sit on the rim in the mornings. But on Thursday I look out just around sunrise time, and there's no horizon, and therefore no sunrise, except -- there's this lake; so I immediately call out to
jwg, who has just stepped out of the shower, "You should come and look at this before it changes." So he does, without waiting to dry off, and takes several pictures, of which this one is the best, although even it doesn't entirely capture the magic:
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Date: 2008-06-13 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-13 05:26 pm (UTC)I've been enjoying the vignettes and photos from both of you. Thank you for posting them.
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Date: 2008-06-13 11:01 pm (UTC)