Packing away the Melville and Moons
Hello again from Brisbane.
Back to the land of the living after a fairly extensive traverse of the open spaces of Southern Africa. Beyond the usual idle days of gawping at the animals and sundowners, pleasant enough past time as it is, the opportunity to play Series Land Rover spotto also came to the fore. However, like game viewing, some of the best got away without the metaphorical shot - waving down motorists on isolated roads, enthusiasts that they might be, or jumping out from behind a bush and yelling "gotcha" can bring you unstuck in a region with as many guns and trigger happy locals as Texas......
Nevertheless, a few did stand still long enough to be recorded:
Early morning near Hermanus (Western Cape) with an interesting canopy
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Not so common SWB game buggy in Hwange (Matabeleland) - most are LWBs
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A veteran from Hoedspruit (Mpumalanga)
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A few more nearby
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Including this ruin of a previously good 107" wagon
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And another oddity of the game buggy genre being a Series 2 tricked out with some Defender viewing bling
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For part of this jolly I was accompanied by the half-chewed Andre of lion attack survival fame
Andre saying hello to a couple of well-armed rhino guards (Matopos Matabeleland) - those AK47s are loaded and ready to go bang..........
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Now I happen to mention Andre here because he commonly expresses disdain for the Solihull product.
However, I did point out from casual observation across his fence that he lived in close proximity to one such example
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Having never taken the time to master Afrikaans expletives I took his muttered ramblings to mean something other than "well spotted".
Might get around to the topic of spotted animals and comfy digs in due course.
Cheers,
Neil
Under your nose.............
Hello again from Sherwood.
Just to prove that you don't need to trek miles to find appropriate subject matter for this thread, this example of one of Britain's finest was parked up in the next suburb (Graceville) last week.
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Cheers,
Neil