Quick Photo Gallery of Iraq
-Patrick S Lasswell
You Notice This is Not Baghdad. (Not everyplace in Iraq is sand and palm trees, honest.
Michael is also not in Baghdad, he has taken up work as a wedding photographer in Erbil. Okay, just for the evening.
So I was just sure that there wouldn't be daffodil-like flowers in Iraq. Kurdistan is full of pleasant surprises. Turns out that for one week during the year, these bloom up in the mountains. I got these flowers for my lovely wife.
On the way back home from the mountains, we came across these vehicles, part of an Iraqi Army convoy up in Kurdistan. They weren't pointing their weapons at the locals.
When you hear about the rugged terrain of Kurdistan, please feel free to picture this. This is the Rowanduz Gorge at Rowanduz. Referance the houses on the right for scale. Rowanduz was a stopping point on the Silk Road for several millenia.
Goat Blogging from Iraq! I raised goats as a child, but never in terrain like this. We also didn't have flowering apricot trees on the Oregon coast.
Spelunking in a limestone cavern in Iraq. Our fixer really loves the mountains and took us to all the most interesting places. The cavern was used as a shelter for sheep and goats during the winter storms. It took hours to get that off my boots.
While in the cavern, we tested out some new LED lights a friend of mine is making [inretech@yahoo.com]. This light is 30 of the brightest LEDs available anywhere. It is running off a car battery I bought in Iraq. It produced a very bright spot that lit the cavern for more than 50 yards. Our fixer had never seen so much of the cavern before. With the power in that battery the WorkLED would continue to produce good light for over a week.
This is our fixer seeing the cavern for the first time although he has often been there. He is now a product spokesman in five languages. He's carrying a QuadLight adapter for MagLite(TM) while I am helping out with the WorkLED. With the QuadLight in hand he went further back into the cavern than he had ever been.
More as energy and bandwidth becomes available.
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Comments
Discovered your blog off of Instapundit and have read through it with interest as I have lived in Iraqi Kurdistan for the past few months. I live north of Erbil and have heard rumors of the cave which you explored. Is this perhaps the Shanidar Cave? Do you remember what town it is near?
Thanks!
Posted by: Phil A. | March 16, 2007 01:45 AM
Pat...you've haven't changed a bit since our days in Bandon. Catch me up.
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Posted by: Thomas Ventriglia | November 24, 2007 08:02 PM
Pat...you haven't changed a bit since our days in Bandon. Catch me up.
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Posted by: Thomas Ventriglia | November 24, 2007 08:02 PM
Pat...you haven't changed a bit since our days in Bandon. Catch me up.
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Posted by: Thomas Ventriglia | November 24, 2007 08:03 PM
its Kurdistan Iraq Not Have Control Over
Posted by: Kurdish | December 2, 2007 09:10 AM
its Kurdistan Iraq Not Have Control Over
(Note from Patrick: I titled it Iraq because I wanted more people to take notice. You may have noticed that Kurds die because they are ignored. Pride is fine. Survival is important. )
Posted by: Kurdish | December 2, 2007 09:11 AM
Its Kurdistan Iraq Do Not Have Control Over there Only Kurdish Peshmerge ..good
(Note from Patrick: I titled it Iraq because I wanted more people to take notice. You may have noticed that Kurds die because they are ignored. Pride is fine. Survival is important. )
Posted by: Kurdish | December 2, 2007 09:14 AM