ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 8月14日 21時56分

photo by @randyolson | words by @neilshea13 — Halfway between Alia Bay and Kalokol a dark island rises and from it the mouths of two volcanoes open skyward. They are dead now and water-filled, and for those who make the crossing each contains a marvel. To the west, shallower and rimmed with grass, is the lagoon of crocodiles. To the east, down steeper trails, lies the lake of flamingoes. Marco Polo might have told of these twin cities, separated by a tall rampart of rock. Or Herodotus, who wrote of winged serpents that swarmed out of the Arabian desert and the heroic ibises who met and killed them before they could reach Egypt. Either man might have observed the customs of the species here, noted how they respect borders, never trespassing, and described how in seclusion they live and die, breed and lay, shielded by their citadel walls. On a hot afternoon we climbed the eastern rim, stopped for a breath, and stared into this pink chaos: ten-thousand flamingoes wheezing and guzzling below, a stadium filled with murmurs and farting. Their smell and noise smothered—a dense gauze that made us blink and laugh—and we stumbled to the fetid, feather-coated lake. We spent hours trying to learn something but each time we drew near the great flock lifted and flapped away. All those bodies, all those wings and silly dangling legs. They were like beads tossed at carnival, or some bubble-gum constellation waiting for a name. In a notebook I still keep a few feathers taped to the yellowing pages. They help me know that what we saw was real.

These Instagram pieces are part of our ongoing project, #NGwatershedstories, and they’re linked to our feature article on Kenya’s Lake Turkana in the August issue of @ナショナルジオグラフィック magazine. For the last six years, we’ve been documenting culture, change, and conflict in the ecosystem that connects southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya, and we hope you’ll join us @randyolson and @neilshea13 as we follow water down the desert.

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