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Wine tasting, Franschoek.
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Saddlebilled Storks in Sabie River, Kruger.
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De Hoop Nature Reserve.
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Crescent Moon.
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Cape Vulture – an Endangered Species.
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Inquisitive Dwarf Mongoose.
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Girls just wanna have fun. Shingwedzi river road Kruger Park.
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Woolly necked stork drying out his wings after the rain in Umtentweni, KZN.
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Bikini beach, Gordon’s Bay.
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Delights of life in Johies… one of the most treed cities in the World.
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Scenes from Sunday’s Cape Town Cycle Tour.
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Curves.
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Pristine moments after sunrise.
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Wagtails 5 days old.
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Paris’ Gare du Nord rail station has been busy for a good while.
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Looking at the Cape stadium from the docks.
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The Big Skies of The (Beautiful) Karoo. Taken while riding the ‘Ride The Karoo’ MTB stage race last weekend.
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Kogel Bay located between Gordon’s Bay and Rooi Els Western Cape.
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Aela & Charlie sharing some shade on the mountains above Misty Cliffs.
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Gemsbok in Namib dessert at Sossusvlei.
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Sossusvlei from the air.
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Sandwich harbour coast near Swakopmund- where the dunes meet the sea.
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Fishing at the Vanderkloof dam.
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Mvuleni/Bamboo mountain outside Underberg.
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Turning heads in Cape Town. Our nocturnal visitor in Durbanville.
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Autumnal Pastures, Oxfordshire.
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Dusk at Rockwood Conservation, Northern Cape.
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Beautiful – but an invader on our shores. A bell ascidian, a colony of creatures related to red bait.
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Not an alien from outer space, but seaweed!
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Amaryllis time.
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Pretty in pink at Helderberg Nature Reserve (Biscuit would love it here).
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Rapids and mini falls at Haenertsburg / Magaboeskloof area.
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Tala Game Reserve KwaZulu Natal.
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Weavers, Buffalo Bay, Knysna.
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Stumbled across this beauty sunning on a rock in the Pilansberg.
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Fishing the Thames at low tide by Kew bridge, London.
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Between the rain showers. Keurboom park.
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Keurboom tree in flower in Keurboom park.
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Thirsty Elephant rushing to get a drink as the sun sets over the Luvuvhu River – Pafuri – northern Kruger National Park.
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Morning misty drive on the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape – strange tree.
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Sunrise at Kob Inn on the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape.
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Elephants swimming in Kruger National Park.
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Tired mother in Mkhuze.
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A 32 year old man having lunch break inside illegal mine in Wesselton Ermelo Mpumalanga.
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Sunset in the Helderberg Basin.
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West Coast National Park.
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Baby Cape Robins in our garden in Stellenbosch.