Watching elephants doesn't always have to be done from a back of a game viewing vehicle or your own car. Addo Elephant National Park has a waterhole with a nice viewing area at its main rest camp and often visitors arriving at the park gets to see elephant here before they even drive into the game viewing area.
Walking on the Flamingo Trail a week or so ago we did one of the loops up onto the escarpment next to the Swartkops River and this was one of the views down. The pink specs are flamingo's on the Swartkops Estuary.
A team of rowers practising on the Swartkops River close to Redhouse with their coach going along in a little motorboat
The road from Matyholweni gate winding into the Addo Elephant National Park
The minaret of the Pier Street Mosque next to the Settlers Freeway in South End. The mosque nearly made way for an off ramp in the 1970's with the minaret already removed by the time that the international community got involved and stopped the Apartheid government from proceeding with the demolition. The Masjied-Ul-Aziz, (Pier Street Mosque) was officially opened in July 1901.
You don't kick a lion kill out from behind every bush and very few people have had the opportunity to see the actual kill take place. What you do get though are the remains of those kills. Bones picked clean and bleached white by the sun.
Port Elizabeth has some magnificent sand dune for those wannabe mountain climbers who don't prefer to do the rocky thing. To the west the Maitland Beach sand dune is probably the best known one with many locals enjoying it over weekend. On the eastern side of Port Elizabeth there are some truly epic sand dunes though. The Alexandria Dune field, the biggest coastal dune field in the Southern Hemisphere, starts at the Sundays River Mouth and stretches eastward over a distance…
A calm morning on the Sundays River with one of the jetties at Cannonville. Some people would prefer to sit there with a fishing rod or a book. I like the company of my camera.
Ornithologists, or just plain bird lovers for those who don't know the big word, visiting the town of Montagu in the Western Cape gets drawn to the Leidam like a mouse to cheese. For the last two years we spent a week in Montagu during our summer holiday and during both visits I spent some time just watching the birds in the trees around the dam. The Leidam was originally built to supply water to the town via canals with each…
Thor, the first white lion to be born at Seaview Predator Park, taking an afternoon nap. He had absolutely no interest in the paparazzi on this side of the fence.