Last week when we were traveling in Mpumalanga, our trusty Canon camera started acting very funny. It all started in the old cemetery in Pilgrim's Rest, an old gold mining town in the mountains of Mpumalanga. The town was established in a gold rush in the 1870s. (Don't think of the California or the Alaska gold rushes here. This numbered in the thousands of miners not tens of thousands.) The town was an active mining community until the 1970s, when the mining company gave it to the government, which turned it into a minor tourist attraction (some might say trap.)
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| This is the Robber's Grave. Legend has it that an unknown man was caught and convicted of tent robbery and subsequently banished. A few days after his trial the thief was spotted on a hill, now known as Cemetery Hill. where he was shot, killed and buried. They buried him in a north-south orientation (all the others in the cemetery lie east-west) so he would forever be branded as a thief. |
Anyway back to the story about the camera, I took some photos in the town and the camera worked fine, however, after I took the picture of the robber's grave, everything went screwy. See for yourself.
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| A photo of Quince and two doppelgängers in the Pilgrim's Rest Graveyard |
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