Archive for Category: Wildlife & Nature

This post is part of my occasional series of photoblog posts about the wildlife and nature I see while living in South Africa. I’m very happy to be able to resume these wildlife posts! One of the hardest parts of the last year was having no free time to enjoy the amazing opportunity I have […]

This post is part of my occasional series of photoblog posts about the wildlife and nature I see while living in South Africa. Whale photography isn’t easy. Even though whales are huge, they don’t typically come close to shore, and they don’t often reveal more than a small glimpse of their bodies above the water. […]

I’ve renamed my nature photoblog series from ‘Cape Town wildlife’ to ‘South Africa wildlife’, to distinguish these new occasional posts from my previous month-by-month year of wildlife posts. It’s been a long time since I last posted nature photos (9 months!), so I have a lot of special things saved up to show you, when […]

This is the twelfth post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. That’s a whole year of photos, and so I think this is a good point to take a step back and make some changes… I really enjoy sharing my photos with you, but the monthly deadline […]

This is the eleventh post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. It’s hard to believe, but we’ve now been in South Africa for a whole year! Table Mountain, recently voted as one of the 7 new wonders of the world, towers over Cape Town and the entire […]

This is the tenth post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. Today I’m going to show you a very special type of bird, and one with a crafty connection! Weaver birds are found throughout Africa, and what makes them special is that the males weave an intricate […]

This is the ninth post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. This post should be subtitled What I Did On My Holidays: over the Christmas holiday, we decided to have a stay-cation and explore the area around Cape Town with a few day trips. There’s really no […]

This is the eighth post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. My biggest problem right now is deciding which photos to show you this month – between our adventures over Christmas and adding a birdbath and a new bird feeder to our garden, I have enough wildlife […]