Archive for Category: Wildlife & Nature

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 […]

This is the seventh post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. This is the harbour at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. Here you can find shops, restaurants, boat trips… and something else. Have you spotted it yet? Let’s try a close-up: It’s a big pile of […]

This is the sixth post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. I’ll be back with another crochet post tomorrow! How could I possibly top last month’s wildlife post? Short of going on a safari, I don’t think it’s going to get much more impressive than penguins and […]

This is the fifth post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. In our mission to look for more whales (you may remember we spotted a whale’s tail last month!), we decided to take a day trip to Hermanus, a small coastal town 120km east of Cape Town, […]

This is the fourth post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. I’ve seen so much wildlife that it’s hard to keep this to one post per month – I still have photos from months ago that I haven’t had a chance to show you yet! I’ll try […]

This is the third post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. It turns out that our new house is just a few minutes’ walk from the Liesbeeck River, which is full of waterbirds. This is where I saw the kingfisher you may remember from a few months […]

Time to draw the winner of my July ‘Review and Win’ contest… and it’s another dinosaur review! This time it’s from Monica B, with her review of my Tyrannosaurus Rex pattern: This is my favorite dinosaur pattern, simple, quick and Very well made! I have made several of them already, as well as other PlanetJune […]

This is the second post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. Fair warning: if you hate all insects and reptiles, you might want to close this window and not read the rest of my post. Although I already have some interesting birds lined up for my next […]