Kenya and Tanzania -- Oct 2012 -- Part II of III

Serengeti National Park. Still at the chetah site.

I may have already written this someplace, but (if so) I'll write it again here. (I had a bit of a computer glitch -- a user glitch really -- while adding these descriptions and had to type some of them in twice. I may repeat myself in some spots because of that glitch.)

The clouds over the almost-flat plains were fascinating to me. I tried to get a photo of the effect I was seeing, Turned out, that effect did not come out well in photos (which surprised me). This is one of the better ones.

What we are looking at here is a series of clouds, with the more distant clouds closer and closer to the horizon with distance. Lookiing at these, I could almost "see" the bottom surface of the clouds forming a dome. Thus it seemed, I was seeing the curature of the earth -- but in the form of the curved lower surface of the bank of clouds. I'm guessing the lower surfaces of all of those clouds were about the same elevation above the ground, and the ground elevation was pretty constant.

Of course, I was looking at this with the background of someone who "knows" (has been taught) the earth is a sphere. I'm not sure I would have really "seen" that curved-earth-surface effect (impressed on the cloud layer) if did not have the advance knowledge the earth was spherical.