STEEL FLOWERS - WINDMILLS OF THE KAR00
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Winter snows on the Wapadsberg Pass between Cradock and Graaff-Reinet
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Early morning in the village of Rietbron.
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The dusty grey Karoo Space bakkie on the road to Gamkapoort Dam in the Swartberg Range.
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Climax - one of the enduring windpump brands in South Africa.
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Evening time on a Colesberg farm - complete with creaking windpump.
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The moon comes out. A charcoal cloud scuds by. The end of a Karoo day...
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First light on a dirt road near Gariep Dam.
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The March of the Windpumps - Loeriesfontein.
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Sunlight streaks the day's last clouds.
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Nothing can prepare you for the bleakness of a mid-winter Karoo day.
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Snaggy-tooth windpump outside Rietbron.
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Thunderhead building in the southern Free State - a windpump awaits at bottom, left.
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A Spilhaus windpump - enshrined at the Turner Museum in Loeriesfontein.
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The eternal crowing rooster at Prior Grange Farm, Springfontein.
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Sunlight playing on the windpump blades of Loeriesfontein.
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The massed windpump display at Loeriesfontein is the only one of its kind in Africa.
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The southern Free State in a time of drought.
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The lonely windpump near the site of the Battle of Boomplaats, southern Free State.
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In the company of giants - Loeriesfontein at dawn.
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Last three seconds of daylight fall on a windpump near Gariep Dam.
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The windpump - the Grand Link between life in the Karoo and the vast underground caverns of water.
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Karoo crafts are centred around the windpump, and you can find wire replicas on sale in Cradock, Middelburg and Colesberg.
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There is no stronger Karoo icon than the windpump.
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Nieuwoudtville - at the foot of Namaqualand - after a rain shower in the daisy season.
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Although the 'modern' windpump was invented in the USA, it was quickly adopted by Australia and South Africa as well.
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Even extra-terrestrials, it is rumoured, plot their way around the Karoo using windpumps as beacons...
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Lekkerlag (laughing with gusto) is a farm in the Tankwa Karoo, where windpumps are essential items.
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Sunset in the Noorsveld near Steytlerville,
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Karoo farmers retiring to small towns often take at least one windpump along with them - for nostalgia and a regular water supply.
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Grand stormlight breaks through the clouds onto a windpump and dam in the southern Free State near Jagersfontein.
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Streaky skies, Aberdeen nights...
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Windpump shadow falls on the ground at Loeriesfontein.
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Windpumps - great designs in practical and aesthetic terms.
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'The rain comes on legs' - a Bushman saying that's true, as this stormcloud graces one farm and ignores all the others...
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Tres Amigos - the three brother windmills of Springfontein.
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Nguni herd heads towards the windpump and water on a farm near Nieu Bethesda.
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Even Smithfield - home of alien research - has more than its share of windpumps.
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The awesome atmosphere of the Loeriesfontein windmill collection.
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Karoo Art - Cradock
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Windmill crafter, Cradock
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Windmill crafter, Cradock
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Climax south of Graaff-Reinet
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Southern Free State sunset
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The rain is coming, the dams are full - a time of Heaven in the Karoo.
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Hard, dry times in the Karoo - the windmill stands witness.
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A 'fixer-upper' for the brave of heart...
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Farmstead, Cradock
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Dramatic skies of the southern Free State
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Sunset, Rouxville, Free State
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Storm light, southern Free State
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Waiting for the rain - southern Free State
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Stylised windmills, Cradock
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Last light on a windmill, Springfontein.
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You never miss the well 'til the water runs dry...
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Farm road, Great Karoo.
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Ganora Farm, Nieu Bethesda
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Dirt road, Great Karoo
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Carnarvon game reserve.
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Sunset, Carnarvon game reserve.
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The peace and quiet of the Great Karoo...
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Late afternoon on the Van Wyk's Vlei road.
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Karoo sunset, Northern Cape.
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