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After the rains. Kids beach, Leisure Bay.
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The world is truly upside-down. Short Tailed Eagle. Shingwedzi, Kruger Park, South Africa.
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Knysna featherbed.
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Wheatfields.
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Wheatfields.
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Rainbow Warrior. Cropsprayer Used for Fire Fighting.
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Robberg Hiking Trail (near Plettenberg Bay.
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Spring has sprung. Airplant in Plett.
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Girls are doing it for themselves.
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What are you looking at?
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Road resting on world Rhino Day.
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Hippo-fest in Kruger.
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Clivia’s on show with plum orchard as background.
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Funny, much easier to watch the replay this morning.
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Zebras at Chamonix, Franschhoek.
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Bat-eared foxes. Phokoje Pan, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana.
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Reflections Grotto Beach Hermanus.
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Street Art, Muizenberg, Cape Town.
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Franschhoek mountains in the morning.
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Otto and Josco.
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The painted reed frog (Hyperolus marmoratus verrucosus). Photographed in a arum lily in our garden in Sedgefield.
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Early morning Buffalo wings snack? Kruger Park Sept 2021.
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Not just another sunset.
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Come along junior, no dawdling in the road! Kruger National Park
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Wild stallion. Kaapschehoop, Mpumalanga.
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50 shades of green.
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Reflection of the Outeniquas.
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Sharing a Feast.
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Just singing in the rain – Cape Grassbird at De Hoop.
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Double Trouble.
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A moody Lions Head, Cape Town.
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Croc eats croc.
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As steady as a rock! Golden Gate National Park.
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Sunrise in the Karoo.
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Perch.
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Churchaven Westcoast National Park.
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Outside Bloemfontein.
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African Spoonbill in the West Coast National Park.
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While residents of Witsands and nearby Atlantis battle high levels of unemployment, lack of housing and crime, the growing environmental challenges are less visible: soil degradation, industrial dumping and water pollution.
(Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
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Sunset’s splendour in Bojanala, Botswana.
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Bird at our pool.
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Waterdog.
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Good morning.
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Montagu Pass, Western Cape.
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Rounding up the sheep near Middleberg.
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Quiver Tree, NC.
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Resting after a bath.
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Approach.
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Jump from Signal Hill, Cape Town.
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Wildflowers in the Biedouw valley.