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Calm after the storm. Berg River dam over 100% full.
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Kirstenbosch magic.
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Grotto beach, Hermanus. Late afternoon.
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Sunset in Gansbaai.
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Knysna sunset off the Knysna Heads.
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Bush Nights at NDzuti.
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After the storm, Kalkbay harbour.
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Beautiful dam high up in the Northern Drakensberg. Taken Sunday afternoon 2pm.
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A Dark Chanting Goshawk in the Mara conservancy, Kenya.
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The peak right in the middle is called ‘The Rhino’ as it looks like a rhino horn. I took this photo a few days ago in the Drakensberg before we set off on a big hike. What a spectacular country we love in.
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An old male leopard on the hunt.
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Imfolozi March 2021.
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Puff adders mating.
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Puff adders mating.
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Chair today, gone tomorrow. Cape of storms. Above Clifton third beach.
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Eenhuurkop, Swellendam with Leucodendron frame.
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Wild dagga next to lake. Hoedspriut.
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Rainbow before the rain – north of Porterville Swartland.
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Run aground.
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Sea Point Pools.
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Rainbow over St. Helena Bay.
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Kalk Bay. A piece of paradise on the False Bay coast.
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Outeniqua Mountains with Montague Pass in Background.
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My husband took this photograph whilst visiting a friend on his farm in the Waterberg – the Milky Way over South Africa.
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Pemba Paradise awaits its fate.
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Ponte.
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Tzaneen sunset.
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Tzaneen sunset.
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Giant baobab in Gravelotte Limpopo.
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A beautiful rain drenched view of sewage flooding into Pinelands. This has been ongoing for the last 20 years or so. Every time it rains, the sewage pours into our streets.
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A Karoo clothes line.
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Ocean’s edge, False Bay.
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Is this where you wanted me to stand, Grandpa?
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Durban Point: on the boardwalk . One image: At play in the sun. 2021.07.02
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Stormy seas at Scarborough in the Western Cape.
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Nursery Ravine waterfall after huge rains in Cape Town.
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The Berg River, overflowing after the continuous Cape rain.
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I took the photo during a trip to Kruger National Park, May 2021, near Crocodile Bridge. My favourite photo of all time.
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Brenda colorful as ever.
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Hout Bay after the stormy week.
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Hout Bay after the stormy week.
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Slanghoek on a beautiful winter’s day.
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Winter’s leafy carpet.
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Golden Light on Clovelly Golf course, Cape Town.
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Spike doing his human move, checking out the back line at Blouberg.
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These has been soo beautiful to capture
Enjoying delta park along the braamspruit in Parkhurst.
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Lockdown home brew weiss
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The glow before sunrise Keurboom Park
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Sunrise in Keurboom Park this morning.
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An arch of Common dolphins racing to the next bait ball
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The Milky Way over the Kgalagadi Desert before the moonrise (Nossob Camp on 30 June 2021).
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Rainbows over Kalk Bay.