Windswept Baobab with Hawk
2008 © Maxim Tabachnik
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Windswept Baobab with Hawk

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A solitary baobab stretches low and wide over the dry savanna of Madeleine Islands National Park. Its thick, twisted branches seem sculpted by centuries of ocean wind. Perched at the crown, a dark hawk surveys the terrain in this stark, sun-bleached landscape.