This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 8 images chosen by readers from my photo files including several from Tsitsikamma National Park, my favorite coastal SANPark.
Diane chose #6009 from the 2014 Native American Heritage Days on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park. This little girl stole the show from the Miss Hopi attendants during the Dog Tail dance. The kids have so much fun participating in this and also the adults watching.
Anne chose #6885, one of seven photos in a panorama taken 2-28-14 at the end of the Tsitsikamma Waterfall trail.
Mary Lou chose #6102, also at Tsitsikamma same visit but this Inkberry was seen along the Suspension Bridge Trail.
Sherry chose #1847, once again from Tsitsikamma along the Suspension Bridge Trail when I hiked in 2013. Not only was I entranced by all the water rounded rocks but the driftwood here made me want to fill a suitcase.
Jodee chose #6072, yet another from Tsitsikamma’s Suspension Bridge trail this time in 2014. Hers is one of two making a panorama because this gnarly tree was just too big for one photo. I wonder who lives here.
Yogi chose #3939, an unidentified bird seen at the Hogsback Arboretum in South Africa during my 2013 visit.
Shane chose #7571. Is there anything cuter than a baby elephant? These two seen in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa 3-6-14.
Sally chose #7411. All the rock formations along the Upper Buckskin Gulch are spectacular but these fins just blew me away on a July hike this last summer.
My choice from last Sunday’s snowy drive through Zion National Park. I’m tempted to buy cold weather gear to visit here and other national parks during winter when there’s peacefully no crowds.
Please join in for next week by leaving a number between 0001 and 9999 in your comment below. Thanks for playing along with Foto Friday Fun.
Do you have a favorite this week?
So good to see all your lovely photos again Gaelyn.Hope you enjoyed a good year and are embarked on an even better one.
I blog when I have something to show like my New Zealand trip just before Christmas.
I had 10 kg water syphoned out of me early in Dec., so God be praised, I can travel again whenever my daughter can find a gap in her booked out year. Life is wonderful. Hope you enjoy your trip.
My son & family were at the Grand Canyon in Dec.
So nice to hear from you and that you are well and traveling. How wonderful some of the family made it to Grand Canyon. Must have been a lot of snow there in December.
Enjoyed all the wonderful photos. Please put me down for 7374 for next week.
Have you down for #7374.
I love my gnarly tree where gnomes and fairies must certainly live an enchanted life! The waterfall trail and round rocks are amazing. Such a blessed life to have seen, and continue to see all this beauty. 1215 for next week please.
Love the mom and baby elephant:) That is a gorgeous tree trunk! And who doesn’t love a waterfall!
I’m with you, I think we need to eventually purchase cold gear and snowshoes to do some winter hiking in the National Parks. John has NO desire to do this. I guess those winters in Erie, PA took their toll on him. I don’t enjoy the cold either. But I love hiking so much and pristine white snow, that I think I would really enjoy it on a clear, no wind day.
I think I will jump aboard the Foto Friday…#7881
Wonderful pics and the elephant pic is my favorite, of course.
I’m going up one from last week to 3940. I feel like I am playing blackjack, so hit me. (with a photo, not the back of your hand)
Definitely, the rock formation fins – that’s amazing! Another fine example of Mother Nature at her best!
Love all these photos. I am looking forward to seeing some of the native American Indian culture, quite a change from African and European. Hope you are in a warmer place now Diane. 5009 for next week please.
Thanks Diane. You won’t be at the North Rim for our Native American days but I’m sure you can experience Indians somewhere in the southwest. Much warmer right now. Have you down for #5009.
The elephant picture is amazing. Thank you for that, my number choice and the Zion picture. Put me down for 7585 next week. What fun!
Love elephants. Have you down for #7585.
Interesting that so many of us chose pictures from the same place. LOVE my rocks and the waterfall trail and the elephants and the great gnarly tree and your snowy road to Zion. Do do get snow play clothes. May I have 3497 for next time please?
Did seem rather coincidental on so many Tsitsikamma choices. Not getting snow clothes. Have you down for #3497.
What an incredible set of photos! Can’t choose a favorite this week.
I’m all for you hitting those parks in the winter. I love Yosemite in winter. It’s magical. I might head back there tomorrow.
#2982 for me this week.
Thanks Shane. I couldn’t possibly dress warm enough for winter in Yosemite. Have you down for #2982.
The driftwood is spectacular. So are the elephants. So is everything as always. I loved Zion (in the summer). If you do by winter gear and hit the parks more during the winter I would love to hear about it of course but also how you manage to stay warm (because I’ve always felt you were like me and kinda’ hated being cold). If you need an extra number I’ll take 9999. I have a lot of empathy for any number that has to always be last!
Not sure I could wear enough clothes to stay warm in the winter parks. Have you down for #9999.
Oh Gaelyn, the Hogsback arboretum is amazing, isn’t it? Once again I loved all the Tstetikama photos but love the Dog tail dance. What tribe of people perform this? Have a great day. Jo
Those rock fins are way cool! 🙂
Great photos – I love all of them.
The bird may be a Tawny-flanked prinia. Thy have a very distinctive thweep thweep thweep call 🙂
Thanks Sue.