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El Guiri
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Geologist and nature lover

Nostriches back in the err hen house? For sunset. Hoping for an omelette in the morning!

Sunset in the karoo. Nice way to finish the day. Waiting for the stars

Thanks. Interesting. Was talking to gardener last month. He said if he needs something at local police station, he will walk out if there's no white officer on duty as all the black officers are corrupt and demand bribes. Quite a profound statement. He's Khosa by the way, not a white guy

So I had a good lesson yesterday. Flat tyre literally in the middle of nowhere in Kalahari desert at 2pm! I had to get a towel to put on the ground to make sure didn't touch it as it was so hot. I had instinct reaction and took jack out and started jacking the car up. Fortunately didn't waste the effort of dropping the spare tyre before realising mistake. Jacked down the car, got compressor out, inflated tyre and poured water over it. I identified the puncture and it was quite small. Moved the car to have puncture more accessible and got the tyre repair kit out. Fixed in 5 minutes, fully reflated and got on my way.

Highly recommend having both a compressor and repair kit in vehicle if heading into isolated areas but also, stop and think. Due to heat and going slow, whole thing took half an hour but could've been a quick 5 minute job. Good lesson for me!

Just looking what's available easily in costa Rica. Have you researched if LED lights ok or too narrow frequency? I hate that there's not much variety and everything moved to LED mainly but it's current reality

GM nostr! Today started with a rather colourful spectacle.

So that's at the fish river canyon today. If you zoom in on the bottom left portion of the shot, you'll see 1 quiver tree on what is a barren dry desert. Don't get me wrong, there's small cacti and stuff around but for something to grow to a full size tree in that environment is mind blowing to me

Yes. Tools lot more. They fascinate me. Such extreme resilience

Few days offline in the desert. Totally re energises! And great company on some drives.

GM and merry Christmas nostr!

Where abluts is are you based?

Na. People not respecting. Difference between communities says it all. I drove past a rest stop today and 2 cars stopped. They were just throwing stuff out of the car. There's just no give a shit and is a mess in too many places. Maybe redirecting funds from changing signs everywhere with no great benefit, to pushing a clean up campaign would be a good idea