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I have a picture for you! 1 - 6 March 2021

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This is a photo of Ostrich parents and chicks taken recently in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier park, Northern Cape. The photo also shows an unusual landscape in that the dunes are covered in high grass after a season of good rains in the area. Dunes are usually just red sand.

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My mate Steve makes these sculptures out of scrap metal. — Zane Erasmus

Cape Recife lighthouse (PE) - February 2021. — Conrad Smit

St Francis Bay; last night's storm and this morning's dawn. — 20210302_055733

Sunset over Milton Pool Sea Point Promenade. <br> — Cheryl Lazarus

This is a photo of Ostrich parents and chicks taken recently in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier park, Northern Cape. The photo also shows an unusual landscape in that the dunes are covered in high grass after a season of good rains in the area. Dunes are usually just red sand. — Jen Eidelman

Here's a photo taken at Riverlea cottages in the Underberg today. Cold and serene. — Sean Hensman

This photo was taken from our holiday home, Guava Tree Cottage’s patio. It's a view on Chintsa Bay. We live on a small farm in Chintsa West. I love the rainbow <br> — Bettie Hough

Sea Point - What a beautiful world♥️</p>
<p>www.cedrics-on-tour.com — Inge

My wife and I drove around in Hermanus yesterday evening just before sunset.<br>I had rained during the day and, as you can see from the sea, the hot wind was blowing a gale.<br>I managed to get some striking cloud shots in the late sunshine and this is one of them. — Hermanus pic 2021.03.01

7am Monday 1March Fernkloof Hermanus — Barbara Lindop

I thought that you might like this photo of a violet eared waxbill in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve in north west. — Sue Goodman

My favourite place. Almost feel you needn't say where it is other than down the east side of our beloved Cape Peninsula.</p>
<p>The men going down the path are from a rehabilitation centre in Lansdowne, Ocean Breeze Unliftment Centre https://www.facebook.com/obucupliftment/ they are enjoying a day in the sun and assisting a 95 year old friend down to the beach below. — David George

Houtbaai Harbour at it’s best. — Alan Reed

Attached a picture of the beautiful Injisuthi region of the Drakensburg mountain in KZN. Picture was taken on 27 February 2021 during our hike in the area. — Mohamed Khan

Moonlight in Durban the other night. <br>City scape and harbour. <br>Let me know if you use them. — Richard Hall

Table Mountain framed by mist. Taken 03 March in Keurboom Park, Rondebosch<br> — Jenni Bessesen

Just 12 km,s from Cape Town on the west coast road you can escape for a peaceful walk away from Covid threat for a while ?<br> — Louis Germishuys

Low tide colours at Queensberry Bay..near Easr London — Paul Francis Jonker

Joburg Dodging Thunderstorms Summer 21 — 20210301

I took this photo of the Amphitheatre in the Northern Drakensberg from the river bed of the Thukela River at the start of the Gorge Walk on 21 February 2021.</p>
<p>The area had recently had heavy rains and the river had flooded and washed away a part of the Gorge Walk trail.</p>
<p>Kind Regards</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
<p> <br>Thukela Amphitheatre <br> — I took this photo of the Amphitheatre in the Northern Drakensberg from the river bed of the Thukela River at the start of the Gorge Walk on 21 February 2021.

The area had recently had heavy rains and the river had flooded and washed away a part of the Gorge Walk trail.

Kind Regards

Andrew

Thukela Amphitheatre

Kommetjie Sunset</p>
<p> — Prospero Bailey

Day handing over to Night — Dr Jacques Theron, Port Elizabeth

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I have a picture for you! 1 - 6 March 2021

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