They do things differently in The Gambia :)
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When I was a kid, I used to love the phrase “sky blue pink”: it sounded like the nicest colour on the planet, or maybe a description of the nicest place. It always made me feel cheerful. That phrase immediately came to mind when I started working on these sunset and sunrise images from our...
Charlie the Crocodile, that is. Not far from Banjul, the capital of The Gambia, is a town called Bakau, in which you will find the Kachikally Crocodile Pool. The most famous resident there is, apparently, called Charlie. Charlie and his chums are so tame that they can be petted. Yes I did. Briefly. Very briefly....
Saw quite a few of these birds, mostly too far away and/or too hidden in foliage to even try to take a photo. But I got lucky on three occasions: the first was at Bijilo when this (young?) bird was spotted in the undergrowth by our taxi driver/guide, who lured him out of hiding with...