The Cahora Bassa dam wall always amazes me, seems so small in width but very deep and holds so much water. Here is some interesting info.... Location Mozambique Coordinates 15°40′S 31°50′ECoordinates: 15°40′S 31°50′E Lake type Reservoir Primary inflows Zambezi River Primary outflows Zambezi River Catchment area 56,927 km² Basin countries Mozambique Max. length 292 km Max. width 38 km Surface area 2,739 km² Average depth 20.9 m Max. depth 157 m Water volume 55.8 km³ Surface elevation 314 m

a dinosaur has hatched!! Cahorra Bassa lake, Tete, Mozambique

I battled for words to add to this incredible sunset, taken in Cahora Bassa....but found this incredible poem penned by my amazing Granny, Anna Susanna Horak Coetzee, so many years ago, and felt it fit so well..... When people ask me what has kept me going through the troubles that come to all of us, I reply; "I stood yesterday, I can stand today" & I will not permit myself to think about what might happen tomorrow. I have known want & struggle & anxiety & despair. I have always had to work. As I look back upon my life I see it as a battlefield strewn with the wrecks of dead dreams & broken hopes & shattered illusions - a battle in which I always fought with the odds tremendously against me & which has left me scarred & bruised & old before my time. I have no pity for myself; no more tears to shed over the past & gone sorrows; no envy for the women who have been spared all I have gone through. For I have lived. They only existed. I have drunk the cup of life down to its very dregs. They have only sipped the bubbles on top of it. I know things they will never know. I see things to which they are blind. It is only the woman whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision, that is so. I have learned in the great University of HARD KNOCKS a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learnt to live with each day as it comes & not borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow, because, when the time comes the things I so fear, the strength & wisdom to meet it will be given me. Little annoyances no longer have the power to affect me. After you have seen your whole edifice of happiness topple & crash in ruins about you, It never matters to you again that a servant forgets to put the serviettes on the table or spills the soup. I have learnt not to expect too much of people, & so I can still get happiness out of a friend who isn't quite true to me or the acquaintance who gossips. I have acquired a sense of humor, because there were so many things over which I had either to cry or laugh. And when a woman can joke about her troubles instead of having hysterics, nothing can ever hurt her much again. I do not regret the hardships I have known, because through them I have touched life at every point I have lived And, It was worth the price I had to pay. "It is so. It cannot be otherwise".

God's own rockery, designed specially for us to enjoy. Rocks and plants placed just right........ (couldnt have done it better myself!)

this is a bit of a blurry snap, but just love the colours, so had to share.... taken from an article on Digital Photography School website..... "I’ve always liked the idea that great photography happens on the edges. Twilight, the transition between night and day, is an edge. I think of it as the ‘magic hour’. You may also see it referred to as the blue hour, a reference to the colour of the ambient light as night falls."