The words Kate has chosen this week are 'Lovely Memory'. I have been going through my remaining archived photographs, the ones I did not lose, and cannot find the one I was searching for but a few days ago I was sitting at my computer watching a tremendous tropical African downpour at Njuma Game Lodge, South Africa, watching the Impala buck getting more and more wet, the water rushing down the tracks of the dirt road.
But sitting there watching him reminded me of another time B and I were in the Kruger National Park and had pulled off the road under some trees to have a lunch in the car (you are not allowed to get out of your vehicle at all except at designated safe stops between the camps). As we sat watching some buck and keeping an eye on a very black cloud approaching, the heavens suddenly opened. We hastily shut the car windows to keep out the pouring rain and immediately our windows steamed up. B had a brain wave. We opened one window a little way and put out an umbrella to keep the rain from coming in and carried on with our game viewing and lunch. I must say we got some funny stares from another car that also pulled into the same clearing.
Not quite the correct photograph but thanks for the memory Kate, it gave us a good laugh.
Promise to follow rules next week. Already got picture planned!
Now to see what others have posted. Keep well and safe all of you.
(P.S. We have both had our first jabs.....yay)
A great memory and using the umbrella was a great idea. I love the picture of the soggy impala :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you. I felt sorry for the impala. Though I supposed they get used to being out in the rain.😊
DeletePoor, soggy buck. I like B's umbrella idea!
ReplyDeleteThanks - the brolly worked well especially as we were able to keep a bit cooler too with the window down a bit.
DeleteYou had me laughing, too. I do love creative solutions, though. Lovely pics, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Yes we had a laugh at the memory as it had seemed funny at the time too!!
ReplyDeleteI can just imagine you sitting there with a brolly shielding you from the rain 😂
ReplyDeleteIt worked well and as it was a particularly hot day it let in fresh cooling air too. ☂
DeleteWe learnt from your umbrella in the car/rain in Kruger and did the same in Scotland one year when the boys were quite little, we were parked on the harbour wall, the rain came in, so we had a 'car-nic' with the windows down and the brollies up - worked well, until a certain small boy dropped the brolly and Himself had to go and retrieve it whilst muttering dark things under his breath!!
ReplyDelete. I think it was brilliant idea and was one worth copying! I wonder if you had many odd looks like we did!! ☂☂💓
DeleteNow that would would have been a funny photo to look back on, but just picturing it works too!
ReplyDeleteSorry we did not have a picture, Were not allowed to get out of the car in the game park for obvious reasons and we did not take so many pictures then either....digital cameras have made all the difference.
DeleteBeautiful
ReplyDeleteJulie x
Thank you. It was a good memory for us. ☂ x
DeleteThose Impala are gorgeous & as for doing strange things, we are not far apart on that front & have caused funny looks at times. Thanks for sharing, take care, stay safe & hugs.
ReplyDeleteYes, they are lovely. Only problem with Impala is that there are so many of them that the excitement of seeing them wears off when you are driving round you are looking for the more unusual type of buck. But now in the UK, any game we see on Africam is very exciting!!
DeleteThanks. I love the picture of that Impala though his roots could do with a touch up - too much grey showing!!! xx
ReplyDeleteI CAN see the rain in the first picture. It sounds like you miss Africa a lot.
ReplyDeleteWe do miss the good parts but not as it has become with so much corruption and crime. Very sad. We do have many happy memories though.
DeleteI can just picture you sitting there with the umbrella :). Great image and lovely photos. A happy memory indeed.
ReplyDeleteThank you, it was a happy and amusing memory. Sitting surrounded by snow I can't believe we were once feeling the heat .... up to 40deg in the Kruger Park!!
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