Daily Photo – Bultfontein Camp

Daily Photo – Bultfontein Camp
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Here's a wider view of the same sunrise as in yesterday's photo. It shows our camp site at Bultfontein.

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Daily Photo – Bultfontein Sunrise

Daily Photo – Bultfontein Sunrise
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After Heuningspruit we found ourselves camped near Bultfontein. This was almost certainly taken with my Tamron 500mm mirror lens as my records show the next longest lens I owned at the time was a 300mm.

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Daily Photo – Heuningspruit Sunrise

Daily Photo – Heuningspruit Sunrise
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Heuningspruit is a really small town, if it even qualifies as a town, about 18 miles north-east of Kroonstad in the Free State. I took this photo of the sunrise from our camp there.

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Daily Photo – Free State near Bethlehem

Daily Photo – Free State near Bethlehem
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Look closely and you can see our camp pretty much centered side to side and just below the horizon. This view is almost certainly to the south-east, the mountains in the distance being in Lesotho. Most of our camps lasted less than a month before we were off again, nomads in Toyota Hiluxes.

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Daily Photo – Theunissen Sunset

Daily Photo – Theunissen Sunset
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If you look at yesterday's image you can see the telegraph pole to the left of center. Taken on the same day but with a telephoto and from a slightly different location.

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Daily Photo – Theunissen Camp

Daily Photo – Theunissen Camp
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Still in the Free State, the Theunissen camp once again provided some wonderful sunsets. Plus, here we were actually camped on some higher ground on the edge of the pond rather than in the pond. Of course, we were aided in this by the fact the pond had water in it when we arrived.

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