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While filming for the series, Kim and his girls were at the waterhole doing some publicity shots. I took the opportunity to snap a few shots of the action as some ele bulls came in to drink.

They had a great time splashing in the mud.

Kim got a few shots in as well!

This is one of […]


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These are pretty cool patterns. But I wouldn’t know if they mean anything.
Apparently this is herder art, and so would be a lot more recent than the bushmen paintings.
This painting stands next to a large overhang which seems to have been inhabited at some stage judging by the clay shrouds and other stone implements lying […]


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These 3 kudu bulls are in a very different style to the other bushmen paintings. I wonder if this isn’t another era of art?
Pretty neat abstract images though.


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What could this long line of parallel dots be? There are no other paintings on this rock face.
Surely they have to be man made. Is this maybe a hunter notching off his kills?


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