Quiver trees, near Nieuwoudtville South Africa

[Oosty]

This farm is called Gannabos, which translates from two languages KhoiSan( indigenous peoples) and Afrikaans - Ganna = Quiver tree and Bos = "forest" or "bush"

The trees are Aloe Dichotoma and they grow to about 3 metres in the very arid areas in Western South Africa. The Bushmen (San) used to use dried hollow branches to fashion their quivers for thie poisoned arrows. This area is semi desert getting abou 70mm rain in a good year but it's hauntingly beautiful.

9 shot stack, Z5 , 24-200 at 74mm, f9, 1/1000, ISO 1250

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[Rassie]

Nice one, Oosty. Makes me homesick.

 

[Oosty]

Koos, I love the dry West and the Karoo. This was on the way back from Strandfontein where it was so wet that my wife and I at eating chokka and slap chips in the car at Doringbaai.

Nice one, Oosty. Makes me homesick.

 

[Rassie]

Koos, I love the dry West and the Karoo.

You and me both, my friend. I lived in the Karoo for a few years as a child. Murraysburg and Graaff Reinet.