This post is part of a series called Southern Africa – 2017 My last day in Cape Town and, finally, blue skies and minimal wind. Table Mountain was open! The Table Mountain Cable Car has 2 cars that rotate 360° so that on the way up (or down) you get to see all of the…
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This post is part of a series called Southern Africa – 2017 On our last day with Liza we had planned to go to Table Mountain, do the Chapman’s Peak drive and visit a vineyard (which they call a wine farm). Unfortunately, Table Mountain and Chapman’s Peak were closed due to high winds. Needing something…
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This post is part of a series called Southern Africa – 2017 The next morning we had planned to go to the top of Table Mountain, but the cable car was closed due to high winds & low visibility. It was a dreary, drizzley kind of morning; not the best for photography, but we weren’t…
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This post is part of a series called Southern Africa – 2017 Cape Town which sits on South Africa’s western coast, at the top of the Cape Peninsula and in the shadow of Table Mountain, was the last leg of the trip. The first stop was the renowned Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, nestled against the…
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This post is part of a series called Southern Africa – 2017 The Okavango Delta is one of the world’s largest inland deltas and an important ecosystem in Botswana. With approximately 600,000 hectares of “permanent” swampland, along with over a million hectares of seasonally flooded grasslands, it has no outlet to the sea – the…
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This post is part of a series called Southern Africa – 2017 African wild dogs are highly social pack animals. They are an endangered species; partly because only the dominant male and female in the pack breed and also because of humans and disease, such as rabies. On this morning, we found a female that…
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This post is part of a series called Southern Africa – 2017 Moving day was a little different than other days. Still up well before dawn, but we’d have to pack up before leaving; with our bags loaded on top of the vehicle we’d head out for the morning game drive. Once TT, Patrick &…
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This post is part of a series called Southern Africa – 2017 The next part of the trip was a 9 night/10 day mobile tented safari in Northern Botswana. A short charter flight from the surprisingly modern and nice airport in Kasane to an airstrip in Savuti. Our pilot looked pretty young to me (he’s…
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This post is part of a series called Southern Africa – 2017 The next stop was Kasane, Botswana for the 5 day/4 night Better Wildlife Photography course with Pangolin Photo Safaris. Our group of 8 had 9 outings on their custom built photo boat and 1 game drive, all within the Chobe National Park. The…
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This post is part of a series called Southern Africa – 2017 The first stop on my Southern Africa adventure is Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe / Zambia border. The Victoria Falls Hotel, on the Zimbabwe side, is the oldest in the area. The hotel was built in 1904 to house workers building the Victoria…
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