The Great Race is on. The Namakwaland flower season, one of the earth’s most spectacular natural phenomena, is now in fourth gear. Having started in late July in the arid northern Namakwaland, spring has bloomed and blossomed its way south – down through Nieuwoudtville, the bulb capital of the world, and the Cederberg mountain range. In the process creating a huge canvas of the northern and western Cape coastal belt.
I can’t remember exactly where I took this – it must’ve been between Langebaan and Clanwilliam – or what these plants are called. But I do know that this pic would’ve been taken soon after midday, for that’s when these beauties open up wide, taking in every bit of the sun they can get. Before closing up with the going down of the sun, when the day’s engine switches off.
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