Outside the Animal Welfare Society's offices on Victoria Drive stands the figure of St Francis, the patron saint of animals and the environment. A fitting place for him to bestow his blessings on.
SAMREC and the East Cape Horse Care Unit are my two favorite animal good causes. Both places do an amazing job, one for penguin conservation and the other for donkeys and horses in the townships. I don't have a lot of time to give to them but I try to do my part through giving exposure on my blog whenever I get the opportunity. Popped by the donks the other day and this is the look I received when we ran out of…
TGIF. The week is over. Not just one week but actually two that just flowed into each other as I attended Tourism Indaba that included this past weekend. Indaba was good, not just from a destination marketing point of view but also from a personal one. Amongst others I got to attend the SA Tourism #MeetSouthAfrica bloggers conference and picked up a lot of tips on social media attached to a travel blog. Some of these I really need to concentrate…
Usually you would see a chicken, and in particular one who doesn't lay eggs, on top of a church spire. Every now and then you do encounter a different one and that was the case with this angel weather vane on top of the Dutch Reformed Church in Robertson in the Western Cape. Visit Skywatch for some more neck cranking pictures of the sky from all over the world
Not a lot of people know that Uitenhage had a concentration camp right on their doorstep during the Anglo-Boer War between 1899 and 1902. The concentration camp used to be situated on 10 hectares of land on the outskirts of town where the festival grounds can be found. During the war a large number of women and children were dying in a Bloemfontein camp because of extreme temperatures. It was decided to establish a new one which had to be somewhere near water and…
A railroad switch on the narrow gauge line west of Port Elizabeth. So sad that there is no Apple Express running along this historic line at the moment, but from what I hear there are a lot of people working hard behind the scenes to get her back on the line.
I don't do a lot of HDR, but I couldn't help but to play around with it on this photo a bit. The photo was taken at Spier Wine Estate outside Stellenbosch overlooking the dam by the wine tasting venue.
Some people are fascinated by shadows and shadow photography. I like reflections better, but for those shadow people out there, here is a pic of the Donkin Lighthouse's shadow taken from the top of the lighthouse.
At Cape Point there stands a little statue of a mother chacma Baboon with a baby riding on her back. Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus) are intimately associated with the Cape Peninsula and the Cape of Good Hope. Baboons inside the Cape Point section of the Table Mountain National Parkpark has become somewhat of a tourist attraction. Round about six troops either live entirely within the Cape Point section or use the section as part of their range. The baboons in this area has…
We popped into the East Cape Horse Care Unit last weekend and I just couldn't help snapping this pic of Drama Princess feeding the donks . It looked like they were lining up to each get a turn for a carrot.