SAA Flight 210 |
Imigration checkpoint screening |
Michael our guide |
Alex our driver |
Capetown and Table Mountain |
Beautiful Capetown Harbor near sunset |
A working harbor |
Dutch influence architecture |
And of course shopping at Victoria and Albert |
Castle of Good Hope courtyard |
Craftmanship inside the Castle |
Real Castles have a moat |
Changing of the guard |
Castle sundial. It's uhhh.... |
Cable car up Table Mountain |
Table Mountain flora (fynbos) |
Additional vegetation |
View from the top |
Another view |
Colorful old Malay area of the city |
Local color in a cosmopolitan city |
The President's House |
Two Oceans Aquarium |
Lobster |
Sea anemones |
A happy penguin family at the Aquarium |
Octopus |
Hout Bay overview |
Hout Bay Harbor |
Kids playing with blocks |
Master of the domain |
OK, ladies, guess what I just heard? |
Mountain roads |
View from the road |
The Cape of Good Hope |
The Cape explorers |
Old Cape Point Light |
Rock Kestrel |
Cape baboons |
Cape Baboon |
Cape Eland |
Cape Ostrich |
Rock Hyrax |
African Penguin colony north of the cape in False Bay |
Adult with chick |
The Penguin strut |
I'm ready for my closeup, Mr DeMille |
Pincushion Protea |
New Navy Corvette |
Kirstenbosch National Gardens |
Bird of Paradise |
Groot Constantia Winery Manor House at night |
Hermanus harbor |
Harbor Fishing boats |
Briefing for cage swimming with Great Whites |
Shark cage and me |
We enter THEIR element |
Close encounters |
The great whites are attracted by a fake seal |
Caught in the act |
Arniston fishing village at sunset |
Colorful boats at Arniston |
Our Arniston lodging, upper right |
Cango Caves view |
Stalactites |
Scenes from the bus along the way |
Rushing creek |
Ostrich farm |
Canola field |
Shanty township |
Northbound auto-carrier from Port Elizabeth |
Our Knysna lodging |
Plettenburg Dolphin watching boat |
Dolphins |
Leaping dolphins in the surf |
Five noses in the spray |
Cape fur seals |
Chameleon |
Tsitsikamma National Park |
Tsitsikamma coast |
Crashing waves |
Views from the hiking trail |
Storms River mouth gorge |
Suspension bridge across the mouth |
Southern Right Whales off Port Elizabeth |
Addo welcome sign |
The gang looks for our rooms |
Beautiful Addo lodging |
Warthogs from our back porch |
Elephants reporting to the waterhole |
Just having fun (I think) |
Addo Eland |
Beautiful Kudu (tasty, too!) |
Hartabeast |
Bushbuck |
Vervet monkey |
Elephant mom and baby |
Cape Buffalo at waterhole |
Cape Buffalo |
Boubou |
Looking for lions |
What the lions see |
Dung Beetle sign |
Warthog |
Jackel |
Zebras |
Termite colonies |
Sunbird |
Okay, ladies, do not push |
Meeting at the hole |
Schotia Game Reserve Landy |
Off-trail we go |
Brand gnu wildebeest |
Beautiful Bontebok |
Springbok |
Giraffe |
Giraffes |
White Rhino |
Workers waiting for the rhino to leave! |
Mature lioness |
Young lion |
Young lioness |
Mature lion |
The End (Oryx) |