Kirstenbosch Flowers
February 24, 2015
Flora, South Africa
These were taken last December, during a ritual visit to Kirstenbosch which is located just a stone's throw away when we are at home in Constantia, South Africa. In the...
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Month: February 2015
Snake!
February 21, 2015
Fauna, Photoblogs, South Africa
We spotted this impressively colored specimen of puff adder, called pofadder in Afrikaans, during a drive through Cape Point last December. Indiana Jones' heart would have skipped...
Cats
February 17, 2015
Always, Fauna
Forever deprived of the utterly endearing and highly sophisticated disdain of our late Estorbo, cat of a lifetime, Marie and I have been carefully avoiding the subject of his...
Birds of De Mond, an EVA - Part 2
February 13, 2015
Fauna, Photoblogs, South Africa
While on our De Mond EVA, the friendly ranger who checked us in showed us a mother spotted eagle owl, in good old SANParks fashion. Later we found the two chicks. And finally, on...
Birds of De Mond, an EVA - Part 1
February 9, 2015
Fauna, Hydrosphere, South Africa, Stories
Imagine yourself adrift in the harsh emptiness of interstellar space, transiting from the cozy orbit of a southern sun called Cape Town to the outskirts of a black hole on the...