Still More Trees

And then there were more trees. I got really into the ones that had been swallowed by smaller vines, creeping up the trunks like the souls of the dead in some Dantean vision of the underworld. In the other post, you can see the little dendrites that hold them together. Sometimes there are branches that grow straight up from other branches like big spears. Unfortunately, blogger seems adamant that I only put up two pictures per post. But, since videos seem to be okay, here's one slightly in keeping with the theme: an elephant eating a baobab. Through the morning, we'd seen lots of scarred up trees and wondered what had been doing it. The guide said that it (along with countless felled trees, and one baobab that had a round hole all the way through to the other side) was elephant-damage, but it was hard to believe. Until we saw this. Meanwhile, the power here is going off a lot lately which limits my posting capability. Who knew passing up an opportunity for a hot shower one night would mean going without for the better part of a week?