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Statuesque

The main feature of Table Mountain is the level plateau approximately 3 kilometres from side to side, edged by impressive cliffs. The plateau, flanked by Devil’s Peak to the east and by Lion’s Head to the west, forms a dramatic backdrop to Cape Town. This broad sweep of mountainous heights, together with Signal Hill, forms the natural amphitheatre of the City Bowl and Table Bay harbour. The highest point on Table Mountain is towards the eastern end of the plateau and is marked by Maclear’s Beacon, a stone cairn built in 1865 by Sir Thomas Maclear for trigonometrical survey. It is 1,086 meters above sea level, and about 19 meters higher than the cable station at the western end of the plateau.

Statuesque

Landscape, Picture of the day

Desolation

Lion cubs are born blind and don’t begin to open their eyes until around three to four days old. Their eyes are a blue-grey colour at first and begin to change to an orangey brown by the age of two to three months. Lion’s eyes are quite large with round pupils that are three times as big as a human’s. A second eyelid, called a nictitating membrane, helps to clean and protect the eye. Lions can’t move their eyes from side to side very well, so have to move their whole head when they want to look in different directions. At night, a reflective coating on the back of the eye helps to reflect moonlight. This makes a lion’s eyesight eight times better than that of a human. They also have a white patch of fur below their eyes which helps to reflect even more light back into the eye.
Info source: http://lionalert.org/page/Lets_look_at_lions

Desolation

Picture of the day, Wildlife

Glow

Embark on a floral journey of discovery at the Pretoria National Botanical Garden, a treasure chest of South African flowering plant species and trees and definitely among the more beautiful of the tourist attractions in South Africa. The Pretoria National Botanical Garden, located in the suburb of Brummeria in east Tshwane, was established in 1946 after the University of Pretoria’s experimental farm and private properties were acquired by the Department of Agriculture. The garden was formerly known as the Transvaal National Botanic Gardens and was primarily a research facility under the management of the Botanical Research Institute, which dates back to 1903.
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The photo was taken during May 2014 in the Pretoria National Botanical Garden, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
Info source: https://www.gauteng.net/…/pretoria_national_botanical_garden

Glow

Landscape, Picture of the day