Category Archives: Photography

Kirstenbosch celebrates world biodiversity day & their 100th birthday

Posted on: July 13, 2013

22 May & 1 July 2013 I love Kirstenbosch, it’s a really beautiful place, but sadly I don’t visit that often…but free entrance is a great incentive – this is a combined post of my last 2 visits: World Biodiversity … Continue reading →

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Tagged beautiful, birds, birthday, botanical garden, cape town, close up, favourites, garden, ginkgo, golden orb weaver, kirstenbosch, leaves, macro, nature, plants & flowers, south africa, special places, spider, trees, world biodiversity day

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Winter roses

Posted on: July 2, 2013

Wednesday 22 May 2013 While I spent my birthday feeling miserably with flu, I really enjoyed the day before which included a walk around the beautiful roses at Chart Farm.

Posted in Out & about, Photography, pretty things
Tagged beautiful, cape town, chart farm, close up, farm, flower, leaves, macro, nature, outdoors, plants & flowers, rose, south africa, winter, winter days

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Long weekend up the Garden Route

Posted on: June 26, 2013

14 – 16 June 2013 Last year I spent a weekend in Knysna and have been dying to go back ever since; 2 weeks ago my wish was granted when I once again joined Jess and Leon for a wonderful … Continue reading →

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Tagged beach, birds, birds of eden, bloukrans, bridge, canopy, clouds, eastern cape, favourites, forest, friends, garden route, knysna, lagoon, loerie, mountains, nature, out in the country, outdoors, photography, plants & flowers, plettenberg bay, river, roadtrip, sky, tour, travel, trees, tsitsikamma, wilderness, winter days

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Dutch tall ships at the Waterfront

Posted on: May 27, 2013

12 & 14 May 2013 Following pretty closely after last month’s Russian Sedov, two weeks ago the V&A Waterfront docks were graced by 3 more tall ships, this time Dutch – the Tecla, Europa and Oosterschelde. We checked them out on Mother’s Day … Continue reading →

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Tagged 3 anchor bay, cape town, dutch, europa, events, greenpoint, harbour, international, ixus, ocean, oosterschelde, outdoors, photography, point and shoot, sail, sailing, sea, sea point, ship, sky, south african, tall ship, tecla, the tallest man on earth, v&a, water, waterfront, winter, winter days

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Little yellow butterflies

Posted on: May 11, 2013

Friday 10 May 2013 These little guys seem to be all over Cape Town at the moment, I think they’re called Common Dotted Border Butterflies. They’re very sweet :)