Month: January 2019
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31st January 2019 – Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
We couldn’t imagine coming to Cape Town without visiting the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden near Newlands Cricket Ground (where we spent yesterday at an international one day cricket match between South Africa and Pakistan). Kirstenbosch is an important botanical garden nestled at the eastern foot of Table Mountain in Cape Town. The garden is one…
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Tuesday 29th January 2019 – False Bay Nature Reserve
Another amazing day on this amazing continent. Our hosts Merryl and Steve really indulged us today and and took us to, what I consider to be, the best place I have ever been for bird watching – False Bay Nature Reserve. The highlights in the main centre at Rondevlei were pelicans, African sacred ibis, glossy…
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Monday 28th January 2019 – Hout Bay
Whilst I was looking out at the beautiful view from the balcony of our excellent accommodation in Camps Bay (51, Camps Bay) I saw some Cape White-eye feeding off the nectar of the tree right in from of me. A room with a view Cape White-eye A little worryingly behind us I could see a…
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Saturday 26th January 2019 (afternoon) – Victoria Falls from the air
I’ll let the photos speak for themselves of the hugely impressive natural phenomena of the Zambezi River and the Victoria Falls seen from the air. Click below for gallery of photos from this afternoon’s flight.
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Saturday 26th January 2019 (morning) – Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Friday 25th January 2019 Windhoek to Victoria Falls Our flight to Victoria Falls was slightly delayed and so we had just 20 minutes to drop off our bags before departing for a visit to a local Zimbabwean woman’s home to hear about local customs and to take part in a meal of local products. It…
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Thursday 24th January 2019 – The Cheetah Conservation Fund
On the way back to Windhoek we stopped at the Cheetah Conservation Fund centre at Otjiwarongo. The CCF is an international non-profit organization headquartered in Namibia, with operations in the United States, Canada, Australia, Italy and the United Kingdom, and partner organizations in several other nations. Our visit started at the very informative museum; we…
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Thursday 24th January 2019 (morning) – Etosha
We were due to set off early for the trip back to Windhoek but fortunately we had a short period of delay as a flat battery was sorted on the coach (our driver Immanual was trying to keep our drinks cool) and we had a further hour at the waterhole. The highlight was the action…
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Wednesday 23rd January 2019 (early evening) – Etosha National Park
A glutton for punishment we had another visit to the waterhole and, again, saw some magnificent birds and mammals. I’ll name some of these later. Shaft-tailed Whydah Southern red-billed Hornbill Baby Springbok swimming to his mum Three-banded Plover Blue Wildebeast Lilac-breasted Roller Lilac-breasted Roller Click below for gallery of photos:
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Wednesday 23rd January 2019 (afternoon) – Etosha National Park
The game drive in the afternoon started at 3 p.m. and was really hard work in the heat of the day. (What did the bushman tell us about not moving around between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. ?) The highlight of the mammals were the Black Rhinos – one of whom wallowed in the mud…
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Wednesday 23rd January 2019 (morning) – Etosha National Park
We were up very early this morning to set off at 5 a.m. on the first of two game drives in the Etosha National Park. The park was proclaimed a game reserve in 1907 and covers an area of 22,270 square kiometres. The park was named after the Etosha Pan, which is located within the…
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