Tom's fairly typical place

2005-07-02T14:56:00.000-04:00

Hello there, if you're just tuning in this is the place where I, Thomas Michael Ryan Hennessey, have elected to store a large portion of the photo's taken during the Experiential Learning term in South Africa. More photos may be found here, at Webshots.

To view them in some semi-ordered state, please start at the bottom, the captions are on the top of the picture. Cheers!

Edit: Checking this after a few months, updated webshots link, and edited useless comments. Go me!

2005-07-02T14:54:00.000-04:00

And that's us about to land in Atlanta.

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We left that night.

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A happy reunion in Joburg. There was another reunion to, but I didn't get any pictures of it...

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And that's that

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huh.

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hmmm

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hmm

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Uh huh.

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wait a second.

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And then this, ok, fair enough.

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Of all the pictures where I don't know what's going on, these that follow are ones where I know the least. I asked Ashley to take a photo outside the plane as we were leaving on the first leg of the international flight. This is what followed.

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This was called the Rainbow Nation. My was it tasty.

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The band again.

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The band

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After dinner we went here for some more music. Good stuff, kind of a rhythm and opera.

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Rumors that I can tie a cherry stem into a knot are simply untrue. The very notion is preposterous. Harumph.

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I don't know what's going on here.

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This on the other hand is architecture.

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I think this is dancing.

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A good time was had by all at the last meal in SA.

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Jesse and John, who claims he is not to be photographed while eating or something.

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Katy, Ally, Megan, Ashley preparing to take their meals home or, more likely, give them away.

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Nearly last dinner with Jesse and Ally at a really good Portugese place.

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More Robbin Island. A community of people live there and maintain the museum now, including both former guards and prisoners.

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One of the cells. One of the many cells.

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When Mandela and others returned to the island after the end of Apartheid, he left a stone at the bottom of that pile to signify something or other. Freedom I think...maybe...

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Lavatory/Lecture carved out of the limestone cliff.

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This was our busdriver and fellow guide. Both of them earned degrees while imprisoned by the way.

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We went to Robin Island next, and went on a tour given by a few of the political prisnors who had once been imprisoned there.

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Here I stand dramatically a few minutes before forgetting my backpack.

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Anyway, we rode the cable car up Table mountain and walked around in a freaking cloud for about an hour. Matt, Dave, and Tom were my companions in this endevour.

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Capetown was, if I haven't mentioned this before, an immensly pretty city.

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Look out for the African Cloud Ticks.

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Andrea Katy Lindsay and John getting a sense of the colonial life.

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Table Mountain, shrowded in clouds. From down here it was pretty. From up there it was cold.

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The View from the window of the Tudor Hotel. I liked the place, it had monagramed pillow covers. If they claim one is missing, it wasn't me.

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A couple South African Sodas will do a body good.

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This one brought me a martini!

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SA destroyer, there was a naval base not far from the penguins.

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This was the only shot I could get of a baboon. Could be worse though, there were attacks last year.

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We generally looked at warning signs, fences and whatnots as suggestions rather then hard and fast rules of where we should or should not go.

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Pretty pretty that was.

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In case one is looking for directions.

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On our way to the Cape of Good Hope. On the left is the Atlantic. On the right the Indian.

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It was a good trip, I don't know if I've really mentioned that.

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Oh forgot to mention, this was called the post office tree because some several hundred years ago when capetown was just a gleam in a city planner's eye, a ship captain left a message to a friend of his in a bottle on this tree. It was also fun to climb.

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Lindsay is part spider monkey. Usually the first to climb anything.

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The Ringleaders. That's Deborah Dickey on the right and YWV Heuchert on the left.

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A beutiful morning to go to a rock outcropping in a bay. Really it was.

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Our Group left a trail of destruction wherever we passed.

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A whimsical contraption in Capetown.

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I didn't eat there, but I like the name.

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Drove through a few mountains. Well a great many mountains. Anyway, these in particular had a fire raging about it for a while.

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And then a brief interlude at the beach. That's the Indian Ocean there, and she is a tempestuous one.

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I got to ride one two, but the camera died before a picture could be taken :(. Just imagine that I did it as awesome as these fellows.

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Went to an Ostrich farm afterwards, which was a pretty weird place. That's me standing on some eggs there.

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Look out Matt, Jesse can control lighting now!

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The incredible singing tour guide! He did a bit of percusion as well...

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The lights come on deeper in the cave. I was told that satan was in the back right hand side, but I didn't see him.

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Painting on a Stenkfortein cave wall. Pretty old and probably better then I could manage

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We got into port elizabeth pretty late and made straight for the hotel.

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The flight out of Durban.

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Hannes our guide stays with us. And Hilda, a guide being reviewed, we meet one more time surprisingly.

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WE leave our bus and our driver Johan in Durban. Ces't la vie.

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More university grounds.

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The campus was lovely, and reminded me of Ann Arbor. There are fewer banana trees there though.

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WE flew into Durban to the univeristy of KwazZulu-Natal, to meet some former and future Allegheny Students. Sihle is doing well, I need to remember to Email him.

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And then we made like a monkey and groomed groomed groomed!

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A delightful 45 minutes on Tick mountain!

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Song and dance.

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Caitlin, trying the Zulu beer. It was a bit...grainy.

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I got to find out.

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The Zulu Chieftain, with a pipe. We all wondered if it was tobacco.

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The Shaman and Medicine man.

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At the Zulu cultural village, getting the lay of the land.

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A marketplace in Zululand, a real one actually where people who live in the area actually go to buy things.

2005-06-28T23:14:00.000-04:00

Into another country we go. Through imporbable mishaps, Prof. Dickey somehow is crowned a Queen of this land.

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The difference between a black and white Rhino is actually in the mouth not the skin.

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Ah! The black Rhino! after such a wait it was a relief to finally see one.

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A monkey. A...female monkey I think.

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Burnt out Veldt. I wonder if it's the type of ecosystem that works better with the occasional fire.

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Widdle baby hippo!

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A pair of lions coming to join the party at a watering hole. With so many different species all clustered around I was hoping something might happen. But...it didn't.

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They tell me Hippos are related to dolphins of all things. What a world.

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Why hello there.

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We not once saw an elephant fly.

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Vultures getting the lay of the land.

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More Cape Buffalo, closer this time.

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Sun always seems to set early. Or maybe it's just more noticable when there aren't any buildings about.

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Camera shy buffalo.

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If I were a hippo I would move for no one.

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Its hard to explain but seeing a Giraffe run is just plain funny.

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So big...

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African Wild Dogs are among the most dangerous and endangered of African predators.

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A pack of African Wild Dogs.

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They can't really stretch their muscels so the captive cheetahs spend a lot of time laying around.

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This is a King Cheetah, identical except for the strip along the back and darker spots.

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A cheetah, built like a greyhound and apparently available as a pet.

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The Vulture restaurant.