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Square Tops #2: Top Cat

04/02/2020•nature, Tanzania, wildlife

Top Cat On A Kopje

Lioness, On Top of a Kopje, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Join Becky’s April Squares: SquareTops. There are only two rules: the photo must be square and it must relate to the theme of  the month.

The theme for April Squares is ‘top‘, and Becky has listed five idioms to choose from;

  1. On Top of the World – summit, crown, peak (tiptop) or uppermost part of something.
  2. Under the Big Top – topping or covering (or if you are really lucky a circus!)
  3. Room at the Top – first or highest in position
  4. Cherry on Top – something made even more wonderful by becoming square
  5. Top and Tail  – or maybe you’d prefer to play around with word combinations such as top dog, top stitch, top hat, top secret, top knot, top drawer or top dollar!

The main tag is #SquareTops but you may also want to add a second tag using the idiom your square is coming under.

Blue Squared #4

07/12/2019•Tanzania, Travel, wildlife

Serengeti Sky Blue

Serengeti Blue

Lioness sunning on a kopjes, a ancient rock that rises above the more recent soils on the Serengeti plains. The kopjes serves as excellent lookouts for lions and other animals.

Join Becki’s July Squares: Blue #12. There are only two rules. The photo must be square and it must somehow be blue (color, theme, concept, etc.)

Kopjes

03/29/2019•Africa, Tanzania, wildlife

Catching Some Rays in the Serengeti

Lions sunning on top of a large rock, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

As we were driving across the Serengeti, we began to see huge boulders and isolated stacks of rocks jutting from the plains. They were a stark contrast to the endless grass covered plains. The granite and gneiss outcroppings in the western Serengeti are called kopjes. They are over 550 million years old; the surrounding rock/soil through which they protrude is over 1200 million years old. The ancient stacked rocks are the result of volcanic activity. Serengeti soil is composed of volcanic rock and ash covering an older layer of metamorphic rock. The softer rocks and ash eroded, revealing the granite kopjes. The rock formations are an important part of the Serengeti’s ecosystem. They provide habitat for a plants, animals, insects, birds and reptiles. Lions often use the kopjes as vantage points to look for game and predators and as lounging areas. The kopjes pictured here is one of the simpler formations we saw.

Join Frank’s Tuesday Photo Challenge: Rock

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