We took a walk around a big lake as the sun was setting. The birds were settling for the night. It was warm and surreal.
Colourful Birds in South Africa
Goodbye Desmond Tutu.
Roy Harper – Flashes From The Archives Of Oblivion – South Africa
Roy Harper – South Africa
South Africa – A Nature Reserve on the Coast
South Africa – Cape Town – Jellyfish, Penguins, sandy beaches and storms.
You don’t expect to find penguins in South Africa, but there is a colony living there.
Big storms were rolling in as we walked along the beach
At the cape there were baboons and cliffs. The huge seas piled in. One could image how scary and dangerous that would have been in those old wooden schooners.
South Africa – some of the Wild Animals
Colourful birds in South Africa
My Favourite Protest Song – Roy Harper – South Africa.
Roy Harper has produced a wealth of meaningful protest song and songs of social comment. This one was produced in the 1970s when South Africa was practicing the evil abhorrent apartheid.
Roy used to do a great spoken introduction to this song that said it all.
Better to use soft words than a fist.
Fortunately apartheid has gone. The trouble is that in its place we have massive corruption and the people are no better off.
It is great to get a beautiful song full of poetry and meaning.
South Africa – Roy Harper
Once I was another’s lover
Now I am my own
Trying to call myself a brother
Living here alone
Maybe if you came to see me
Wishing I wasn’t so blind
Sitting here thinking to be free
Maybe we’d all change our mind
She is kind and beautiful
I am young and strong
We have never met each other
But it can’t be long
Oft’ I have slept by her window
Often I whisper her name
And wonder that words in the wind blow
Happy that hers are the same