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exaggerated strength and beauty. Surely there is nowhere on earth that the term ‘King of the Beasts‘ is more fitting than here, to this magnificent and truly impressive animal.
The park provides outstanding opportunities for wildlife photography and filming. The array of unique animals coupled with the fact that the park is largely empty of tourists make it a perfect place to spend time exploring. It is also largely unexplored and doesn’t quite make it onto many tourist itineraries, this is slowly changing as the hidden gem is being revealed. There is perhaps no better time than now to escape into the sandy vastness to become isolated, small and one with the desert.
Right: When the rains come in the Kalahari, there is no
place for the lions to take shelter. Instead, these magnificent lionesses make good use of the rain. When their coats are soaked, they lick each other to get a free drink. This will save them a trip to a waterhole and allow them more time for more important business.
Untamed
Sculpted from ancient rocks and stream there’s a dream
in me ... untamed. Unnamed, it comes alive in my silence and in the unframed manner of my waiting.
Awake, aware ... it is there, coiled
in the folding of my arms,
in the holding of my breath and
in the deep wakefulness of my sleep.
A force of fire and clay
It hunts along the edge of play
of hide and seek and turn away.
Body of sand and skin,
to know this spoor is to know the allure
of our gravid kin – three months here ...
nine months there always expecting, and always ...
the unexpected.
From the UNTAMED Exhibition
- Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town (2010 -2012)
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