Crackling Campfire Nights

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Music of the night

One can safely say their is no such thing as absolute quiet when sitting outdoors doing what most enjoy, must be our past life in caves a campfire glowing everyone drawn close for comfort.

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Reminiscing recent experiences or stories of old, always feel such a small entity within massive story book.

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Echo of sea breaking on the shore, iconic night sounds most unfamiliar to the ear.

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How very much we rely on sight and sound..

No outside interference from cellphones, TV, only gentle glow with crackling fire slowly unwind and relax more as each night passes.

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One night we heard 'song' from tree where we had sighted Trumpeter and Southern hornbills when the sun set. The sound was loud cacophonous audio call, with raucous tapping, rapidly staccato, with wailing in between, it sounded much like rapper out of control.

This lasted around ten minutes then all quiet except the sound of the sea, it started up again for around half an hour around 10 pm. Perhaps a leopard was passing through the bush, everything alerts the next of imminent danger, we will never know!

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Everything tastes better when cooked outdoors on a fire, enjoying the meal under the Milky way followed by a cold beer, life could never be better, lost in hypnotic calming.

As night creeps in, temperature drops throw a few extra logs on till they burn down to glowing embers, ever listening or talking, an overwhelming feeling being warm in front of a flickering fire, yet able to touch the stars above, you have found ultimate restitution for mind, body and soul.

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Wrinkles reflect on shore reminds us our aging process is setting in.

Content when embers glow around midnight one reluctantly knows it's time for bed, tomorrow more adventures exploring out with nature, no longer sitting relaxing listening to the beckoning calls, get out and "Feast Your Eyes".

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We felt like the cats whiskers enjoying every night outdoors next to the campfire, quite a treat for a week with one of our two adopted wild cats here enjoying the late afternoon sun or was it early morning... Till next time.

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All photography is my own using a Canon PowerShot SC730 HS, resized for easier loading, writing is my own.

Thought for Today: "He who ventures into the bush should close his ears to rattling." - African Proverbs

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The sound was loud cacophonous audio call, with raucous tapping, rapidly staccato, with wailing in between, it sounded much like rapper out of control.

So pretty much every rapper nowadays. Haha.

No offense to any rapper. This is just/only a joke.

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Would love to know what had these guys going, sure rapped for awhile, perhaps sounded louder carrying across the bush.

!LOLZ closest description I could come up with!

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So much poetry and music in your post! So many different sounds, wonderful thoughts and amazing pictures. I received great aesthetic pleasure reading you.
Have a nice day!

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Wish I had thought to record it, now a memory never to forget. Getting away from suburban noise everything is poetry in motion.

!LUV

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Such beautiful memories always keep in our memory, as well as the melodies of favorite songs. Thank you for LUV! 💖

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Very special time away, tucked into memories now, trust you are holding up under the awful times you enduring up North.

Keep smiling, we are thinking of you, holding out for a better tomorrow.

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The flames in your first picture look like fiery creatures dancing on the top of the wood.

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Flames still dancing in my minds eye, nights to remember!

Thanks for visit, have a wonderful day.

!BEER

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Your post make me feel I was right there, enjoying the fire and the rapping sound of the birds. Glad you are having a wonderful relaxing time.

Wrinkles reflect on shore reminds us our aging process is setting in.

This line gave me a chuckle, Joan.

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Mesmerizing night out one I will not forget in a hurry, hauntingly beautiful. Excellent break which could have been a week or two longer, sigh!

Lines of age, wear with pride, we have come a long way together.

Have an awesome day, so good you enjoying longest day of the year in sunshine I hope, we have absolutely perfect weather this time of year, shortest day sunshine !LOLZ

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hello dear friend @joanstewart good day
What a beautiful experience to spend the night under the stars by the fire enjoying some cold beers
What a beautiful place, enjoy it a lot

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Perfect weather all week to do this every night, times like this are rare.

Thanks for visiting and kindness.

!WINEX

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these simple things in life, is where happiness lies, enjoy it a lot dear friend @joanstewart
Have a beautiful week of fun nights

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We haven't had a campfire in ages, but reading your post brings back many memories of camping and being outdoors when it's dark🔥
As soon as the world gets darker in the evening, the sounds of nature's creatures change to completely different ones which most of us, including me, often don't recognize, and even the wind in the trees can sound so different when it's dark.

Great and entertaining post and photos as always, Joan 😊


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Primal instinct kicks in during the hours of dark, such fun listening to waves, wind and night shift animals come out. Night guard stopped to chat telling us Rhino were coming up at night, right behind the wall we were sitting.

Best medicine for my son who has had a rough two years (he has not been away in the last 5), got him back into making fire, cooking most the meals on a really big fire for only two of us 😄. After dinner, kick back taking turns cleaning up, then building a proper fire to sit contemplating life in silence with odd chatting to midnight or early hours of the morning.

Time is now to do it again, I could have stayed up there for a lot longer!

!WINE later, not !PIZZA would prefer fire cooked !LOLZ as did the wild cats getting a free dinner.

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As long as the Rhinos stay behind the wall and don't want to have a look if something of your food is left 😉

Oh yes, for many people being in nature is a great medicine to get back to life after or while having a hard time, I myself experience that every time I get out. But sitting at a campfire is something I haven't done for ages, as I have said before. Chatting till midnight or later is something I can't imagine anymore. I have no idea how I could stay up so long in my younger years ... now, the later it gets I get quieter and quieter and suddenly fall asleep 🤣 !LOLZ


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Nature most definitely best medicine, perhaps not being up late take a comfortable chair you can doze off in when next you build a campfire. Don't think you will sleep, too much to listen to, much city baggage to dispose of in ones head takes time.

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Over the years I have learned to sleep when people talk, so I can only agree, I would love sleeping in a comfortable chair at the fire while the others talk all night long. But they will sleep when I get up in the morning and they will not see the most amazing sunrise 😊 !LOLZ


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Guilty of that, I did manage two early mornings one was quickly outdoors took a few photographs and jumped back into bed !LOLZ

Hunting tides with the seashore a different morning there we had to be up early! Maybe not as early as you, early enough to enjoy the views into rock pools.

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There's nothing better than to experience the nature waking up, taking photos is just a part of the whole, but I can completely understand you because sometimes I also would love to stay in my cozy bed, but I can't sleep because I feel bad when I leave the son alone while she's rising 😉 !LOLZ


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Once you on 'pension' you lose the time piece,run on hours you decide, much easier 🙃.

!BEER

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Most of our pensioners don't have any time, they're always on a rush. For me it will be just as you say - I don't want to care about time anymore - hopefully 😂 !LOLZ


Cheers and !BEER

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Time is always running out, might as well enjoy it at a pace you can, take it all in and enjoy the moment.

!WINEX

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The older you get the less time you think you have - this is what I often think when I see the pensioners rushing from place to place, from a store to the doctor ... I want to do it as you say and enjoy the moment, every single one 😊


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Adjusting the clock to your time keeping is different, avoid shops and doctors they only look for problems you may have.

Dink !WINE red at night for health, that !PIZZA may not the be healthiest, but taste counts!

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A few years ago I have been at a doctor because I have had really serious neck pain and she has found a couple of other things - all in all I have been one week at home until my neck didn't hurt as much anymore and for a few weeks I have had several therapies and pills to take ... I have never visited a doctor again since 😂 !LOLZ


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My Dad always said after age forty a doctor will find something wrong every time you visit, rather eat balanced diet and avoid doctors.....

Unless pain is extreme push on through with home brews or concoctions 🙃

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I eat what I like sometimes a !PIZZA and sometimes unhealthy things, but I'm feeling fine and much better than colleagues who go to the doctors and eat diet and such 😅


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Lol that look of I wonder why you are photographing me from the kitty! Seating by a campfire would be a lovely treat now with some Old Brownsherry 😃

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Adopted by two semi-wild cats, sure the smell of braai meat made sure they became very comfortable. Dry red wine was lined up for the week after sundowner beer, most relaxing week I have enjoyed in a long time.

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Am glad you had a relaxed on Joan, lovely when we are able to spoil ourselves to a treat now and then.

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When young we cycled from where you live down to Little Falls, build a fire to cook lunch take a swim and cycle back. Now wall to wall houses, freeways and mayhem, pity so much has changed!

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Those were the good old days when fear of living does not exist, walk on the street now you have to be alert and watch around you all time.

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Too many people, too much crime, the worst we could do to get into trouble was coming home after dark.

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What a beautiful way and a beautiful place to spend time. There's nothing better than an enchanting fire.

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Total relax time, watching the fire, listening to the music of the night is most rewarding.

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Yes, sometimes need to move away from cities, take a break from the noise and all sorts of Internet with gadgets. Just enjoy nature, without foreign objects.

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Best to submerge oneself into nature at every given opportunity, all electronic devices are a distraction we have allowed into our lives.

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Wow.. This cat looks like my cats!

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Two of them adjusted very quickly in joining us at meal times 😇 very pretty cats.

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