{"id":635,"date":"2009-10-25T14:05:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2009-10-25T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:05:44","slug":"the-desert-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"The Desert Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0couple of years back we were in Egypt, and while spending time in and around Cairo with my friend Jenny Bowker, we enjoyed a camping trip out through the Black Desert into the White Desert SW of Cairo.\u00a0 Most of the party slept out on the sands enjoying the constant gentle cool breeze after a delicious dinner and campfire cameraderie to close off\u00a0 an interesting day.\u00a0 By bed time we’d all had glimpses of at least one of these shy creatures who kept mostly to the shadows around our campsite<\/span><\/em>, but even by the time we went to bed their tracks showed\u00a0 they had ventured into the quieter corners of the campsite, and were on the lookout for\u00a0food.\u00a0 We heard several of them squabbling out in the dark over bones and left overs they’d snatched\u00a0 from the bits and pieces the beduoin\u00a0driver\/guide\/cooks\u00a0 had put out their way after we’d finished our dinner.\u00a0\u00a0Lying wide\u00a0awake just before dawn, I\u00a0watched one of them warily tip-toeing around a neaby sleeping body( Esterita) \u00a0but outside sudden-flung arm’s reach … and then !flash! Mike captured this guy on, um, digits.\u00a0 Inside a tent, he ‘d quietly managed to reach his camera and get this lovely shot of the desert fox, feneeq.\u00a0 \"desert<\/p>\n

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As the sun came up and we began moving around there were an amazing number of tracks cross crossing the whole camp site.\u00a0 Knowing the German WWII commander in the north afrrican desert, Erwin Rommel, had been nicknamed ‘The Desert Rat’\u00a0 by the British, I googled some bios to\u00a0find a photo but his ears were\u00a0very normal looking – so the nickname must have referred to his\u00a0stealthy cunning, because he was\u00a0legendary in tank and strategic deesert warfare all across that arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This experience is just one of the things I think about each time I approach my ‘Tracks’ series\u00a0to start\u00a0a new work.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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