lake Natron, aerial pictures

 

volcano Shombole, one of the few mountains around the shoreline.

 

a delta drying, salts are creeping up.

 

I should crop this one and call it Saturn rings. the receding waters clearly leave marks. it can be so hot that my feet through the soles have been nearly painful because of the boiling sands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

and flamingos…, this lake is the only breeding place in Africa. Kenya has plan for a dam on the only river feeding Natron, whereas the Tanzanian gvt, always on the prowl to wreck its treasures wants to reopen plans to build a soda factory on the lake. It happened in lake Magadi next door in Kenya. The flamingos haven’t bred there since 1962, and even so it was an emergency attempt that failed miserably...