Saturday, October 2, 2010

Windpomp

One of the iconic rural countryside objects of South Africa is the windpomp (wind pump).  Windpompe is used to extract water from boreholes and can be found (working or not) on all our highways and byways around South Africa's countryside.  This one I photographed on one of the game reserves just outside Port Elizabeth.

5 comments:

  1. They have a certain rural charm!

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  2. Haven't heard that name before. Nice looking windpompe.

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  3. I liked seeing the windmills, as we call them, around the rural countryside of ZA. Not too many left in rural America.

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  4. We saw some of those when we were there, and I was so surprised. Guess I thought they were mostly in the western U.S. so it seemed odd to me to see them in South Africa!

    Beautiful photo.

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  5. We even have a festival with the windpomp as central theme.

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