Harshness. Hoverfly and Spiderwort, Iguaçu Waterfalls, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
The Roar of the majestic Waterfalls still in my ears, I walked a bit on a rather difficult trail into the forest. I had to turn back after less than 500 m - my feet and legs to the knees in thick red mud - , and I felt ashamed knowing that Cabeza de Vaca (see my previous photo) and his companions in the early 1540s blazed a trail for 1600 km from the Brazilian coast to Paraquay! His view of nature must have been very different from mine, of course. He'd already spent more than a decade of utter naked (!) deprivation in what is today more-or-less Mexico, and then he made this South American exploit with no hotel for a late afternoon bath at the very place he named the Saint Mary Waterfalls.
It's not without cause that in his correspondence with the Spanish Throne he writes about the harshness of it all, the deprivations in this untamed nature.
And there I am... a mere transitory with a view to those magnifcient Falls seen already my many thousands. On the other hand, only few here, I think, have eye for Spiderwort and Hoverfly. I'm afraid I can't scientifically name my finds but they sure are pretty!
Harshness. Hoverfly and Spiderwort, Iguaçu Waterfalls, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
The Roar of the majestic Waterfalls still in my ears, I walked a bit on a rather difficult trail into the forest. I had to turn back after less than 500 m - my feet and legs to the knees in thick red mud - , and I felt ashamed knowing that Cabeza de Vaca (see my previous photo) and his companions in the early 1540s blazed a trail for 1600 km from the Brazilian coast to Paraquay! His view of nature must have been very different from mine, of course. He'd already spent more than a decade of utter naked (!) deprivation in what is today more-or-less Mexico, and then he made this South American exploit with no hotel for a late afternoon bath at the very place he named the Saint Mary Waterfalls.
It's not without cause that in his correspondence with the Spanish Throne he writes about the harshness of it all, the deprivations in this untamed nature.
And there I am... a mere transitory with a view to those magnifcient Falls seen already my many thousands. On the other hand, only few here, I think, have eye for Spiderwort and Hoverfly. I'm afraid I can't scientifically name my finds but they sure are pretty!