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- Invading my space. Image: Yvonne Hoy
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- The lazy gang. Image: Moremi Nkosi & Kagiso Seripe
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- Happy Moonday. Image: Peter Brett
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- Beautiful Leopard, beautiful grass. Image: Peter Brett
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- Waiting for the hatch, Potter Wasp, Seychelles. Image: Laurie Barwell
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- Sun touching the Atlantic, in Camps Bay. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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- Sunset over George dam 22 April 2022. Image: Andre Olivier
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- First attempt at a swim in Cape waters. Image: Brian Alborough
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- Female Impala taken at Kenton-on-Sea. Image: David Fisher
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- Spotted in the garden. Image: Daniel Potgieter
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- A Sunbird samples some tasty treats in a Strandfontein garden! Image: Gary Van Dyk
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- Stylish Sylos at Villiers. Image: George Olivier
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- Kudu bull dropping by for a chat at our home in Marloth Park. Image: Mike Shepstone
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- Moon at night in Mphumalanga. Image: Hosia Magana
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- Feisty ground squirrel takes on a mole snake heading for its burrow – and wins. Mabuasehube, Kgalakgadi Transfrontier Park, March 2022. Image: Jacky du Plessis
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- Surveying historic Bath. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Bath Cathedral Ukraine verdict. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Autumn is here. Image: Jesse Rowe, Linden, Johannesburg.
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- Red Heron. Intaka Island, Century City, Cape Town. Image: Peter Reber
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- Afternoon sun through the Autumn leaves. Linden, Johannesburg. Image: Jesse Rowe
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- Drakensberg during 2022 KZN flooding. Image: Vivien Connell
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- Sunset on Robberg Beach. Image: Julia Visser
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- Brooding evening sky. Morningside, Durban. 2022.04.24. Image: William Giles
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- Surprisingly wild Neap tide in De Hoop Nature Reserve. Image: Amanda Viljoen
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- Afternoon in Ohrigstad bush. Image: Julia Visser
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- Conservation ecologist in the renosterveld of Blaauwberg Nature Reserve. Image: Julia Visser
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- Stark statement: Front wall of old “Natal Command” property. Prime 21 hectares, sold in 2003… 2022.04.24 Durban, North Beach. Image: William Giles
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- Outeniqua Morning. Image: John Miller
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- Immense Visitor Passing Through. Image: Janice Ashby
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- Sun rise on Kings Beach Port Elizabeth. Image: David Dampier
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- Mozambique Hell’s Gate Santa Maria. Image: Sandy Inglis.
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- Sunday evening stroll at Strand Beach. (That’s Table Mountain in the distance). Image: Karmine Visagie
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- “Do not ruffle my crown!” African Crowned Eagle, KZN south coast. Image: Peter Vos
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- Snorkeling with curious seal pups in Hout Bay, Cape Town. Image: Tim Gaunt Guiding
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- I found my thrill on Hampstead’s blueberry hill. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Mother plants ready – succulents at nursery in Muldersdrift. Image: Dimitri Martinis
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- Love in the Slowveld – White River. Image: Ettienne Engelbrecht
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- Emergency on earth.. lalela… Image:: hassan amra
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- Proteas after a fire. Image: Dylan O’Hagan
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- Image: Susanne Lorraine Johnston
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- Here’s looking at you… Image: Alex Downes
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- Gandalf, the chocolate lab, contemplating a Paternoster sunset. Image: Reneé Smit
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- Inner Peace = Outer Peace. ‘WE’ art for Peace. Image: Gwen Van Embden
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- Paw. Image: Richard Bennett
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- Lions Head from Devils Peak. Image: Dudley Annenbetg
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- My husband took this photo for a prompt adding “too much hay on my fork”. Good thing it was a small fork and he has very broad shoulders. Image: Andreas Van Rooyen
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- Wavecrest Wild Coast Sunrise. Image: Dennis Wesley
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- The bountiful summer rains have resulted in rolling grasslands & pans that still boast water, as well as many shades of green & blue. Mabuasehube Pan, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Image: Jacky du Plessis
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- After the rains .Tala Valley,Kwa Zulu Natal. Image: David Thompson
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- Bulungula is beautiful. Image: Kerrigan McCarthy
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- Pani Dam, Mount Edgecombe at 5h30. Image: Rob Mossop
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- Fisherman, Muizenberg, Cape Town. Image: Peter Reber
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- From our bedroom window in Magoebaskloof this morning. Image: Mark Harman
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- Brave swimmers in the Camps Bay Tidal Pool. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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- An autumn swim at Oudekraal – paradise with a sad history. Image: Lucinda Jolly
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- Catching the rays. Image: Rita Smith
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- Collecting supper from Strandfontein beach, Cape Town. Image: Lunga Newman
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- Autumn sunset from Houtkapperspoort. Image: Alex Downes
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- A peach of a day – Langebaan Lagoon, Western Cape. Image: Mary Berry, Amazing Africa
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