Category: Outdoors

10,000 rubber ducks

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Small country need small festivals. Few are more bizarre than the Duck Race.

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Concept is simple: take 10,000 rubber ducks, sell them to people for charity, dump them to the river and see which duck comes to the finishing line first. The lucky owner of that one wins a car.

All ducks are the same. No tuning allowed.

Half of Luxembourg showed up.

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Although not everyone showed similar enthusiasm.

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Suspence is building up

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And here they come. All 10,000 of them

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Some of the ducks need some help

 

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At the end, it’s all for charity. No other reason really.

 

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My duck did not win.

From the Archives: Africa and safari

Posted in Africa, From the Archives, Nature, Outdoors, Travelling, WildlifeLeave a comment

Over the years I have taken thousands of pics of African wildlife on different safaris. Here are a few. No doubt I’ll add some later on.

This baby elephant wanted to protect its herd and attacked us with enthusiasm. Enthusiasm died before it reached us. A butterfly.

Baby

Penguins are typically happy in groups. However, there is always one lone rider.

Lone rider

Mummy and baby in stripes

Stripy mommy

There should be limits of how personal one should be in removing flies. Buffalo and Oxpecker.

An itch

The classic yawn every wildlife photographer needs to capture.

Yawn

Twins at high alert – boks in Swaziland

Mirror image

Finding the catch

Watching the catch

One needs to keep an eye out while others feed.

Standing guard