The Serengeti, time stood still

Another day dawned blue and bright and we drove through the crater on our way to lake Ndutu on the short grass plains of the Serengeti. One of the great photographic aspects of the crater is the wall which always provides such a dramatic backdrop to pictures.  The different colours and textures and light provide an interest and beauty to enhance any animal.  

Look at the shapes and form of the hills behind the wildebeest and then also behind the elephant.  

After our visit to the museum at Oldovai I decided to take a short detour to visit the shifting sands, a unique, if not bizarre geological formation on the short grass plains towards the Gol mountains.  A Barchan sand dune made up of black sand slowly making its way across the plains pushed by the easterly prevailing wind. This dune has a speed of 15 meters a year and just heads steadily west towards the horizon.