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Drink up.
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Nature’s painting in Camps Bay.
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Mtunzini beach.
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Coming in for the landing at Grasslands Flying Club
Pretoria.
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Keurbooms Beach early morning Plettenberg Bay.
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Muizenberg beach – low spring tide.
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Before sunset in Keurboom Park.
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Muizenberg beach.
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Sunset over the Orange River at Vioolsdrift.
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Tugs leaving the V&A Waterfront harbour to do what tugs do.
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Early morning warning.
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Ottertrail morning beauty.
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Tshani, Wild Coast.
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House Crow
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From Dalebrook Tidal Pool, Kalk Bay at sunrise.
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Light of the Moon.
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Hartbeespoort dam sunsets.
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Hartbeespoort dam sunsets.
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Pink Backed Pelican in the Durban harbour.
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Fynbos Lesser Double-collared Sunbird at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens on the slopes of Table Mountain.
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Leopard in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve.
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Face to face with a stink bug.
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Escaping Paris for some trail running in Chamonix with my border terrier, Indiana Jone.
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Jozi skyline.
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Autums sunset on the Namaqualand coast.
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Autums sunset on the Namaqualand coast.
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Rhino Peak, Drakensberg, KZN.
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Sunset over Langeberg, Swellendam.
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De Hoop sunset.
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Pretty butterfly
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De Hoop Nature reserve.
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A family of Cape clawless otters leave their tracks on a wintery. early morning beach at Rooiels.
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Taken behind the mountains that surrounds QwaQwa Free State.
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Autumn vineyards at Steenberg Estate.
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“After the storm”.
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Dramatic Sunset.
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Move on. Nothing to see… Great Plains Conservation
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A corner in the sun. Havana.
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50 shades of green. Avenue of trees in the Magwa Tea Estate, Lusikisiki. #wildcoast.
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Busy Bees at Durban Botanic Gardens.
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Dapper Daywalker.
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Sunrise in Keurboom Park, Rondebosch.
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New ferns on the charred slopes of Devil’s Peak, 23 May 2021.
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Sunset Sunburst! Underberg, Southern Drakensberg.
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Kasira in Kruger Park.
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Kite surfing at the Lagoon mouth at Grotto Beach Hermanus.
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Dune defences at Hout Bay May 22.
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Kite surfing at the Lagoon mouth at Grotto Beach Hermanus.
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Silence before the storm. 5 May 2021. Strand Beach Cape Town.
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After the storm. Dargle valley KZN.
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Baboons waking up at Cape Point. Sunday May 23.
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Baboons waking up at Cape Point. Sunday May 23.
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Stillness. Hermanus Lagoon edge.
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Stillness. Hermanus Lagoon edge.
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Taken on the morning of the 8th May, at Castleburn, Drakensberg Gardens Road.
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Langebaan lagoon before the mining ruins it.
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Sunset on a farm in Swellendam at Afrikamp Kam Bati Glamping site from the chalet.
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Sunset on a farm in Swellendam at Afrikamp Kam Bati Glamping site from the chalet.
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Sun set at Irene, Pretoria.
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Renosterberg near Middelburg.
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Norwood, Johannesburg”s sunset 24 May 2021.
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The sunset this evening in Norwood, Johannesburg – 24 May 2021.
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Riebeek Kasteel church taken by a Cape Camino.
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Boy with dogs early morning Rebanang Lesotho.
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Olive Woodpeckers, Kirstenbosch.
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Wavecrest, Wild Coast, Eastern Cape.