https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/igneousrock/ Recent content in Igneousrock on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:21:58 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-19-tiny-critters-in-a-big/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:21:58 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-19-tiny-critters-in-a-big/ <p>Tiny critters in a big landscape. Almost every pile of boulders (ancient magma chambers exposed by erosion and then crumbled by weather, plants, and time) has a pair of resident klipspringers (rock-hoppers) - an adorable, agile, and feisty little antelope.</p> <p>These plaques on the rocks are the kind of memorialising that used to be de rigueur in the old days. Now such things are usually confined to camps and gates rather than forced onto the landscape.</p>