Tag Archives: outdoors

West Coast daisies

Posted on: August 27, 2013

21 & 22 August 2013 An annual harbinger of Spring, the carpets of flowers that decorate the West Coast (usually from late July/August onward, depending on the weather) are really special, beautiful and always worth visiting. I spent some time … Continue reading →

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Tagged annual event, beautiful, birds, cape town, childhood, favourites, flower, geelbek, kraalbaai, lagoon, landscape, langebaan, memories, nature, out in the country, outdoors, outside, plants & flowers, preekstool, roadtrip, saldanha, sea, spring, west coast, west coast national park

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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 :)