Winding down the photos I took on my short visit in Abidjan, end of April. Thought I’d already posted this — if you view it on a larger screen, or enlarge the image, you’ll see the daily dusk flight of the fruit bats going off to do their nightly foraging. I believe I recall once reading that fruit bats are among the most important pollinators for the world’s most popular fruit, the mango — several of which I greatly enjoyed while there, so, hey – thanks, fruit bats!
One last flower from my last visit in Africa for my friend Jean, who told me after an earlier Urban Gardens post featuring this very planter of flowers what they are: ruellia. Thanks, Jean – you are definitely one of my most steady and engaged readers, and it’s readers like you who keep me going 🙂
And now a bit of a sunset view of the coastal lakes & ponds of Abidjan as the same airplane lined up for a landing at Félix Houphouët Boigny International Airport, about an hour’s flight due west of that last airport-landing set I showed you from Cotonou.
Last City Lights entry from that lovely dinner on the lagoon my first evening in Abidjan last week. Maybe the last City Lights entry for a while, since the days grow wonderfully long here in Amsterdam, which means I rarely have much chance to observe city lights lately 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 