Sometimes home enjoying a beer with friends, sometimes on the road checking out the world.
Lions eating Hippo
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I could have grossed you out with the carcass photo but decided against it. This hippo was killed during the night and will provide 3 days worth of eating for this lion pride. The lions take turns guarding the kill.
Full and content, the pride rests on the termite hill, slightly away from the kill.
Anything this large is going to bring in others. The vulture and jackel wait for the lion to leave her post.
This first shot of Lebanon is in Khalde, about 30 minutes outside of Beirut. The view from my hotel window in Beirut. I wasn't willing to try and run through traffic to get the beach shot. And finally, the ocean from Khalde.
First the backstory. In about a week I'll be boarding a cruise ship (this year's Cruise Trek) in Romania. When I booked the flight many months ago, I had a brilliant idea to go in a week early to Vienna and use it as a base to spend a few nights each in Albania and Bosnia. Fast forward to 6 weeks ago and the Covid restrictions, flight schedules, and hotel prices made me give up. Changing the flight to Vienna would result in penalties and possibly fare increases so I made the best of it and thought, where can I go in Austria where I've never been? Innsbruck, hmm. Can I get a free flight from Vienna? Yes! Can I get a free hotel room? Yes. Check! The city is picture perfect though. Nestled in a valley between two mountain ranges, it's green, colorful, and everything you could want a place to be when the purpose is total work decompression. No major sightseeing, no expectations. You, a city and a view. It's walkable and small. You've got to look up, left and right,
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