Have I been away too long?

Lioness in Addo Elephant Park

We managed to rack up more than 1,000 photos on our trip to South Africa earlier this year. It took forever but I finally managed to bring it down to the Yahoo limit of 300. I still have to scan the numerous ticket stubs, flyers, and other souvenirs, but for now they can remain tightly tucked away in the big bown envelope ;-) Trivia for the day: 8 Things You Probably Didn't Know About South Africa 1. Every year the ringed plover flies more than 10,000km from Siberia to the Western Cape. 2. 24,000 plant species - nearly 10 percent of all the flowering plants on earth - are found here on 1 percent of its land area. 3. It is off Cape Point that the flying Dutchman, a phantom ship with tattered sails and a broken mast, is doomed to sail until the end of time - a legend which inspired Die Fliegende Hollander, an opera by Wagner. 4. In a museum at Hermanus' Old Harbour near Cape Town, you can hear the voices of whales broadcast from the deeps via an underwater microphone. 5. Though now considered a delicacy, crayfish were once so plentiful in Cape waters they were used as fodder for the inmates of the penal colony on Robben Island. 6. The little resort of Coffee Bay received its name when a large cargo of coffee beans was washed up at the mouth of the Nenga River after a shipwreck. 7. Huge cockroaches knows as 'Parktown prawns' are a familiar sight in Jo'burg gardens. The can grow up to 7.5 cm long. 8. The comical baobab trees which look like they've been planted upside down, can live up to 3,000-4,000 years.