Here’s a sad image of a dead or dying whale on a beach in South Africa. It seems that people are having to try to save beached whales increasingly often, and sadly there’s some suggestion that our marine sonar systems could be at fault.

More information on beached whales at Wikipedia.

Thanks to adam lewis.

The Voortrekker Monument was built in honour of the Voortrekkers (Pioneers), who left the Cape Colony in their thousands between 1835 and 1854. The monument was inaugurated on 16 December 1949, the anniversary of the “Battle of Blood River“, and was designed so that the noon sun on that day would cast a ray of light onto the “Shrine of Honour”. The day is now a public holiday named “Day of Reconciliation”, to represent the hope for reconciliation between different racial groups after the end of Apartheid.

In 1949 a large amphitheatre was also erected to the North East of the Monument, which seats approximately 20,000 people.

Thanks: Carl & Dean

Some large type. ‘Net Jesus Red‘ is seen here written on the side of a hill in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. I assume the language is Afrikaans, but unfortunately none of the online tools I could find would translate it…

I tried Dutch though, and got ‘Save Exactly Jesus’. Can anyone do a more accurate translation?

Updated: Thanks to everyone who translated the Afrikaans to “Only Jesus Saves”.

Thanks to TeddyJoe.

This is the hulking, rusted remains of some sort of large ship off the coast of South Africa… a few hundred miles up the coast from here is the famous skeleton coast, home to countless shipwrecks.

Many thanks to Patrick. Yes that Patrick