This is a copy of an Agfa slide taken by my father in the 1970s. It features liquid reflections on the surface of the water of the Fever Tree-lined Inyamithi Pan at Ndumo Game Reserve in northern Zululand in South Africa.
This pan is famous for its beauty, its bird life, its crocodiles and more than a few hippos. My parents used to take us there when we were children and we loved it too.
Posted in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge with the theme “Liquid”. To see photos from other bloggers on this theme click here
Posted by Carol
letting nature back in 
May 21, 2018 at 9:05 pm
Beautiful and reflective in multiples being your father’s photo and a photo of your memories
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May 23, 2018 at 3:51 pm
Multiple reflections! A nice way of looking at it, thanks!
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May 18, 2018 at 1:47 pm
What a beautiful shot and filled with memories for you which makes it all the more beautiful 🙂
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May 21, 2018 at 5:50 am
Thank you Osyth. It is a beautiful place even without the lovely memories I have of Ndumo.
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May 18, 2018 at 8:31 am
How fortunate are we to have such wonderful sceneries, and Carol, on your doorstep!
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May 21, 2018 at 5:48 am
Thanks Suzette. Perhaps we need to visit Ndumo now that there has been some rain in that region. During the long drought the pan was reduced to little more than mud and puddles.
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May 18, 2018 at 7:41 am
Gosh, I wonder if that is a Water Thick-knee in the foreground. Agfa slides … what a lot of memories are captured in those!
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May 21, 2018 at 5:44 am
Possibly a Water Thick-knee (forever a Dikkop in my vocabulary!) – can’t really tell from the photo, but they are (were) common on the shores of the pan. Family slides had a whole series of rituals attached, including waiting to get the envelope of developed slides delivered in the mail, and then always being sightly disappointed at the results 🙂
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May 21, 2018 at 7:12 am
A Dikkop in mine too! How well I remember that procedure – and the blurring disappointments!
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May 18, 2018 at 6:12 am
A lovely photo – and a period piece too.
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May 20, 2018 at 8:11 pm
Yes it is a period piece. Thanks Margaret.
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May 17, 2018 at 9:34 pm
Goodness, that is so beautiful
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May 20, 2018 at 7:56 pm
Thank you Sandra. I have always liked this photo, and managed to photograph the backlit slide in close up using the macro setting on my digital camera.
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May 17, 2018 at 9:13 pm
That is pure golden! Wonderful, Carol!
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May 20, 2018 at 7:46 pm
Thanks very much Pete.
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May 17, 2018 at 9:06 pm
Rudyard Kipling wrote about Fever Trees lining the Limpopo River. I didn’t know they were a real tree.
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May 20, 2018 at 7:43 pm
Indeed they are. I have an earlier post about them here: https://naturebackin.com/2017/02/09/african-shadow-brocade/#more-2218
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May 20, 2018 at 10:17 pm
Thank you for that link. The Fever Tree has flowers similar to our wattles, hence the original name, I guess. It’s a lovely shape in the landscape.
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May 21, 2018 at 5:56 am
Thanks Jane – yes the shape is distinctive, and it and other of the trees-formerly-known-as-acacias are iconic in the African savannas.
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