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Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts

15 January 2024

South Africa

This cape is the most stately thing and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth.  Sir Francis Drake, 1580

Cape Town was my home for the first 30 years of my life.  My family still live there and I get to visit on a regular basis.  While Australia is where I live now, Africa will always be in my blood and my love of its wildlife and natural beauty only grows stronger every time I experience it.


Cape Town



Highlights

Hiking

Walking

Beaches

Birding

Historical and cultural

Old haunts


Cape Town surrounds

Garden Route & Inland



Inland



South Africa



South Africa visits
  • 2002: Cape Town (Mum and Mike's wedding)
  • 2003: Cape Town (Jo & Steve's wedding)
  • 2004: Cape Town
  • 2005 & 2006: Cape Town (Xmas), Pringle Bay, Paarl, Stellenbosch, Langebaan, Wit Els Hike
  • 2007: Cape Town (Colleen & Steve wedding)
  • 2009 & 2010: Cape Town (Xmas), Nature's Valley, Oudtshoorn, Storm's River, Plett, Robberg, Knysna 
  • 2012: Cape Town, Orange River, Kruger National Park
  • 2014: Cape Town, Breede River
  • 2015: Cape Town, Garden Route, Cintsa, Transkei, Drakensberg, Joberg
  • 2016 & 2017: Cape Town (Xmas), Wilderness, Sedgefield, Swellendam
  • 2018: Cape Town, Wellington, Aquila, Mauritius
  • 2019 & 2020: Cape Town (Xmas) Plett, Robberg, Jonkershoek, Beaverlac, Victoria Falls, Chobe
  • 2022: Cape Town, Cedarberg
  • 2023 & 2024: Cape Town (Xmas), Riviersonderend Kloofing , Die Hel,  Prince Albert & Swartberg Pass, Ceres
  • Cape Town visits



Africa

2 December 2023

Riviersonderend Kloofing

A really fun day kloofing in a beautiful area with some wonderful leaps into water. The highest jump was 9 metres.  I did this walk once before when I was very young, with the Cullies.  Awesome to get a chance to do it again.


































7 January 2020

Robberg hike (Plett)

Robberg makes my soul come alive. It must be one of the most beautiful hikes anywhere in the world.  It has everything; wild oceans, sea cliffs, sand-dunes to run down, a beautiful swimming beach, great wildlife (seals, lizards, gulls.)  This was my second time here.  We did it with Jo's wonderful hiking girls and their families.




















































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