I can see clearly now, the rain is gone

Posted by dobbino (Cape Town, South Africa) on 16 September 2008 in Landscape & Rural.

This is the last image of the Langebaan lagoon - my apologies as it's very similar to a previous image, just from a higher vantage point. I have been a bit negligent about giving some information on the lagoon itself, and take this opportunity to do so now below. As mentioned before, we had experienced a few days of rain, and everything here looks clean and washed on a beautiful day.
Every year between 50,000 and 70,000 birds (I may have missed one or two when I last counted them!) fly over 15,000 kilometres from Russia to spend the summer feeding in the lagoon. It hosts over 250 bird species, more than a quarter of South Africa's total, and is classified as a wetland of international importance.
In prehistoric times the sea level was 140 metres above today's levels. Actually, the lagoon is one of the largest huge oyster graveyards in the world, and it is estimated that more than 30 million tons of shells lie beneath its waters. The oysters died because the water temperature changed when the sea receded all those years ago.
Title inspired by the song by Johnny Nash

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