We de Wets (Dries, Marilize and Joubert) have always had a great affinity for the wild outdoors and we are often joined on our excursions by our close friends and family.
With “de Wets Wild“ we hope to share our love for and experiences in South Africa’s wild places, from the smallest nature reserves to the biggest national parks, with you.
Feel free to join in the conversations!
The de Wets at Ithala Game Reserve – December 2011
I was raised in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and also lived in South Africa for many years. Your beautiful photos make me so homesick and bring back lots of happy memories of less hectic times. I love the bush and I guess you can take the girl out of Africa, but you cannot take Africa out of the girl. Thanks for sharing this wonderful site and your great wildlife photography.
Thank you so very much for the kind comments – high praise from such a talented photographer as yourself and we are humbled and thrilled to have you read and participate! Of course we agree wholeheartedly – once Africa’s wild places get into your blood there’s no cure!
Africa is a continent we are beginning to consider…your photos and blog is very interesting, amazing and enjoyable! Wild life is one of my great interests, but Africa – no, I have only been to Egypt. When travelling down the Nile we got a taste of it, but our next project might just be South Africa!
Oh Lagottocattleya, that would be wonderful and we believe that you won’t be disappointed – our South Africa really is a beautiful country with so much to offer!
your delightful blog has been nominate for an award
brightest blessings always 
http://the-serenity-space.com/2012/12/26/thankfulness/
Thank you for the great honour Jenn!
your’e very welcome
I’ve never visited Africa but doing so has often been on my mind. The first step is to learn more and this looks like a great place for that.
Thanks for the positive comment Eric and it’s great to have you join us – We hope you will find the inspiration you need to book your ticket to South Africa here at de Wets Wild!
Dries and Marilize, you are the best!!! Thanks so very much again for the award. Now we’ve never done anything like this so I’m hoping it did the right thing. I do have one question though (this is going to sound stupid) how do you get the blog awards into your sidebar? I guess I am better with a camera than with a computer!! Thanks again for your online friendship, Marks and I truly appreciate you and love your work.
Joey
Thanks a lot Joey – we feel the same way about what you and Marks are doing with mjculverphotography!
I’ve e-mailed you at your .gmail address with some pointers on getting the blog award pictures into your sidebar – hope you don’t mind!
Have a lovely day!
Dries
Hi! I have been to parks in South Africa and Botswana. I life-changing experience and as a photographer, it was a dream come true. Nice to see you!
Welcome Jane, and thank you for visiting – hope to see you around here often!
Hi, I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award if you would like it!
Here’s the link for the rules and to see if you fancy accepting
http://elleturner4.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/thank-you-very-much/
What a brilliant start to our week Elle – thank you very very much!
My pleasure
Looks like you escape to the bush and the wilderness as often as possible!
Picked up some tips already, glad i found your blog.
Thank you and welcome! You also have a wonderful South African blog with great content, which is why we recently subscribed to it as well!
And yes, it’s true
, we’ll use any old excuse to disappear into one of South Africa’s wild places any chance we get!
We’re pretty fortunate hey!
We definitely are!
Hi, I have nominated you for the Liebster Award but only of you would like it!
Here’s the link back
http://elleturner4.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/lucky-old-me-and-thank-you/
Thank you for thinking of us again Elle, it really is appreciated. We will get around to a decent acknowledgement soon, we promise!
You have an amazing collection of animal photography!!
Thank you so very much, it makes us very happy to hear that you enjoy our pictures! We hope that your travels will bring you to our beautiful “fraction of the world” at some point in the future, and hopefully de Wets Wild will play some part in convincing you to come!
That would be wonderful, I promise you right now that I will let you know if that day ever comes! Until then I’ll have to leave it to my imagination – your lovely posts for sure help
Your blog looks great, can’t wait to read it thoroughly. Some beautiful photos too. A visit to S.A. is definitely on our bucket list.
Thank you very much for the kind contribution! We’re sure you will have a wonderful time exploring our country and we hope you have your visit jotted down near the top of that list!
Welcome! Thank you for subscribing to follow my blog. I hope you are encouraged, inspired and enjoy the photos I take of life’s events as seen through the lens of my camera.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
I had a wonderful friend from South Africa and look forward to seeing your view of this beautiful country. Thanks for following my blog!
We appreciate your company!
Love your photos! Thank you for signing up to follow my blog! I hope that you will enjoy my posts! – B
Thank you Barbara
Hello! I wanted to thank you for following my photography blog. I’ve enjoyed yours very much– I loved South Africa when I visited– I am pleased that you would like to see more of my work. Cheers!
Thank you Jane
Thanks for liking my cloud collage on the Wild Weekly Photo Challenge and for following my blog. I am looking forward to following your blog as well. I am very interested in Africa.
You are very welcome at de Wets Wild Rosemarie!
Once again, thank you for liking my William Tell post.
Hi! Just to let you know that I have nominated you for the Liebster Award! go here for all the info:
http://cvheerden.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/award-season-liebster-award-1/
Thank you very much for thinking of us cvheerden!
Thank you for checking out my post of Lagazuoi and World War I. I find it fascinating, and they blew up the mountain.
Hey, thanks for stopping by my blog and the follow, hope you liked what you saw, Look forward to seeing more of your work,
You are very welcome Ed, and we hope to see you around here often as well!
Hi de Wets clan – Just a quick note to say THANKS for following my blog piran café – it’s very much appreciated and I hope you enjoy!
Thank you to you as well BobR!