Blue Skies Take My Breath Away And My Hope For The Future Is Bright
Creativity, adapting to change, one thing we humans are good at, we have reacted to current situation by reinventing production lines providing healthcare products. Frontline people are going out to ensure we have food, medicines, petrol, we have much to be grateful for, we will emerge with new knowledge, knowing that extreme adaption is possible.
Now when this is over, considering my last two stop off's were up in the mountains, my next planned visit will be back to the open bushveld, raw nature, too many places are being overrun with human entertainment, preferably somewhere waiting patiently, watching our animal kingdom.
This area I have shared many times previously, taking you into wildlife, seeing spectacular long white beaches, hugged by dunes reaching to the sky, wildlife being well wild... What more could one ask for?
Photography of this region with words to poetry that deeply resonates in me.
I Know a Place in Africa - Wayne Visser
I know a place in Africa
Where I can feel the sun on my back
And the sand between my barefoot toes
Where I can hear the gulls on the breeze
And the waves crash on the endless shore
I know a place in Africa
Where the mountains touch the skies of blue
And the valleys shelter vines of green
Where the trees spread out a cloth of mauve
And the bushveld wears a coat of beige
I know a place in Africa
Where I can hear the voice of thunder gods
And watch their lightening spears thrown to earth
Where I can breathe the scent of rain clouds
And taste the sweet dew of dusty drops
This is the place of wildness
Of evolution and dinosaurs
Where life began and mankind first stood
Of living fossils and elephants
Where lions roar and springbok herds leap
This is the place of struggle
Of desert plains and thorn trees
Where pathways end and hunters track game
Of horizons and frontiers
Where journeys start and sunsets bleed red
This is the place of freedom
Of exploration and pioneers
Where darkness loomed and light saw us through
Of living legends and miracles
Where daybreak came and hope now shines bright
My heart is at home in Africa
Where the sound of drums beat in my chest
And the songs of time ring in my ears
Where the rainbow mist glows in my eyes
And the smiles of friends make me welcome
My mind is at ease in Africa
Where the people still live close to the soil
And the seasons mark my changing moods
Where the markets hustle with trading
And creation keeps its own slow time
My soul is at peace in Africa
For her streams bring lifeblood to my veins
And her winds bring healing to my dreams
For when the tale of this land is told
Her destiny and mine are as one
Poetry "I Am An African" - To Hans Zimmer (Power Of One) soundtrack by Wayne Visser.
Thanks for joining me, one place would fill my destination with everything I would look forward to once we are allowed to move around once more. Although I know the beach down the road is where we will go to let Woody run off the pent up energy stored having to become an inmate with his human counterpart.
This journey may not be over as soon as we hope, perhaps when we relate back we will remember and appreciate the things we have right here at home, this area is a 3.5 hour drive from home, so close yet so far!
!pinmapple -28.1232 lat 32.5564 long Isimangaliso Wetlands South Africa D3SCR
Thought for Today: "What nature gives us is not refused." - Bantu Proverb
