Only joking as this Orange-winged Dropwing Dragonly has 4 wings and the shadows made it to look like 8 wings (Trithemis kirbyi).
Some lovely dragonflies, and these critters with their intricate colors and amazing flight abilities will forever fascinate me.
Our third power cut of the day forced me to go and sit peacefully in nature in order to get the beauties on camera that I will show you in here. We had to be back home at 3pm, as we had an appointment with a technician to come and change the installation of our inverter. But I will tell you more about it in the conclusion of this post, as for now come and have a look at these wonders of nature.
The top left wing of the dragonfly hung over the water and you can see that the shadow of the wing was gone.
Here below I have 3 shots of a lovely female Broad Scarlet (Crocothemis erythraea). We call her the happy camper as she always looks like she is smiling and laughing. Such a cheerful one!
And this is a male Red-veined Dropwing (Trithemis arteriosa).
Now this little guy sat in the wind and it looked like a male Navy Dropwing (Trithemis furva). The next 2 photos will show you how the wind fluttered it around.
Finally this lovely one looked like a Cape Skimmer (Orthetrum julia capicola).
We bought an inverter that runs on lithium batteries in order to work on our PCs during the power cuts. At the beginning it worked well at a limit of 3 hours, but surprise, surprise, the Internet signal started to disappear during the power cuts. Apparently the batteries at the signal tower couldn't charge up fully due to the frequency of the power cuts.
Talking about batteries our new gate auto battery stopped working during the power cuts and it became a mission to open and close the gate manually.
Due to the crime situation it was also dangerous to stop the car and then to remove the locks from the gate motor in order to change the gate over to manual operation.
So the solution? Simple, link the inverter up to charge the gate motor during the power cuts and at the same time also link the garage door battery and the security system's battery up to the inverter. So 3 small batteries and the inverter can easily last for 6 hours to charge the batteries.
Sadly we cannot work during the power cuts on our PC without a signal on our PCs, but our safety is more important and now the batteries can all remain fully charged for the duration. One has many choices in life and to sit without power is one thing and quite another thing without protection.
So we did the right thing.
I hope that you enjoyed the photos of the dragonflies.
And That's All Friends.
Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX70HS Bridge camera.
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