So this morning the Prime Minister of Lesotho declared martial law and the military has taken over the streets of the capital city. To celebrate, I went for a ride in the uninhabited grazing lands east of where we live. (Actually, I planned to go riding now matter what the politicians do, but it's a good excuse.)
The ride was mostly on single tracks or making my own tracks across grazing land for the first half. I had a little trouble getting across the first donga (canyon caused by erosion during the rainy season) because there was enough water running to turn the sand into quick sand. I buried my front wheel to the axle the one place tried to cross. Fortunately I went real slow down over the edge to see if the sand was "quick" or not, otherwise I would have buried the whole bike. (Been there and done that several times with an old DT175. It's a LOT lighter to lift out!) I finally got across further upstream and went over to the next drainage. There I found this pretty little canyon. That's what the pictures are of. (Sorry, I can't seem to get them rotated right. They're fine on my computer, but no matter how I change them, they want to lie on their sides!)
I found a porcupine quill and some tracks:
And my bike waited patiently at the top for me while I climbed down to check the canyon out.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!