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Winter is fast approaching and in Fish Hoek it brings beautiful sunrises.
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Star fish in rock pools on Fish Hoek beach March 13th.
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First day of Lent Symi, Greece
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A stunning and gentle sunset over False Bay
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Champagne Sports resort a few weeks ago. The sunrise on the mountain was spectacular.
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A photo of the “illegal diamond fields” in Kimberley. There are a myriad of artisanal miners desperately seeking to etch out a living in Kimberley by braving the tailings in the area. From across the country and the borders of South Africa desperate men and women are trying their luck to find shiny stones that may change their lives for a better future.
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Hermanus 11th March
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Keeping a Capetonian… delayed Nana…. company, in kids garden, on a rainy day in Sydney
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Dusk skies outside The Twelve Apostles Capetown
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From Alan Glass of our photo group.
“Fishermen reflecting”, taken on the promenade at Muizenberg.
#alanglassct
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Caught on my cell phone one of those camouflaged praying mantis one purple one greeny-yellow inches from one another with incredible details.
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Caught on my cell phone one of those camouflaged praying mantis one purple one greeny-yellow inches from one another with incredible details.
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Knysna Lagoon
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Xai Xai in Mozambique. People collecting shellfish on rocks at low tide.
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Xai Xai in Mozambique. People collecting shellfish on rocks at low tide.
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Spanish Moss, Arcadia, Fl, U.S.A
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Mialo with his soccer ball, a foggy Saturday morning Paternoster.
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Full Moon pushing through the clouds above Hout Bay
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Bokpoort, Loxton, Karoo Highlands Route, waiting for rain.
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The Groot River gushes into the sea at Nature’s Valley after the storm. (16 March 2020).
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Morningside Durban
Pic taken from my apartment on the 11th of March. NO FILTERS USED.
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Orange River after good rains, just below Vanderkloof Dam
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Sunset on the East Kleinemonde River, near Port Alfred.
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Barberton Valley created by an asteroid strike 3,000,000,000 years ago, and Adam’s Calendar in the distance. (Mpumalanga).
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Dawn across False Bay from Simon’s Town. March 13.
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Road from Betty’s Bay to Rooi Els on our cycling trip to CT.
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Hammerkop taken at Albert Falls Dam.
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Orange breasted sunbird in a Mimetes chrysanthus ( Proteacae) at Kirstenbosch gardens.
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Slangkop lighthouse, Kommetie.
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Sunrise at Cederberg vineyards. A more dramatic winery setting will be hard to find.
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A birds-eye view of Hout Bay.
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Cape Town coastal drive.
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Snow on the Julian Alps behind Tolmin in the Soča Valley, Slovenia.
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An unseasonal shower over Lion’s Head on Monday morning.
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In hills of Hermanus —-a rare jewel
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Here’s looking straight at you!
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Goodhope Farm near Robertson
Just before sunset. Perfect peace.
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Hout Bay view from Constantiaberg.
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Pringle Bay.
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Sunflowers among other cover crops restore soils on a sugarcane farm in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
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Hout Bay at its most spectacular.
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The Amphitheater, taken in March, 2020.
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View over Cape Town CBD from Tamboerskloof, below Signal Hill. A panoramic from 50 images.
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Paradyskloof.
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Taken at Marloth Park on Thursday 11th March. Too good not to share I thought.
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Heavies at the main building of UFS campus, opposite student protests, Monday 15 March.
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Kleinmond.
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Old Quarry near UKZN.
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Palmiet Nature Reserve – Westville.
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Squalls brew in the Overberg.
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A view of Kalk Bay from the Brass Bell. See the quay and lighthouse in the distance.
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Augrabies
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Taken on the 7th March 2021 at Dullstroom Dam at sunset. Love the mirror reflection and how still the water is.
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Taken on the 7th March 2021 at Dullstroom Dam at sunset. Love the mirror reflection and how still the water is.
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Hope
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Lions of Djuma.
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Sunrise from Kirstenbosch gardens at 6.55 Thursday, March 18th. Silver trees in the foreground.
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Golden sunrise (this morning, 19 March 2021) – Farmall, Rietvallei.
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Breakfast at Madikwe.
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Dusk Cape Town CBD
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Living Wall KZN
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Lack of opportunities don’t stop these kids in McGregor.
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Warner Beach’s “Lion Dog” on his afternoon walk ! ! …. Warner Beach Sports Field.