New

To this little plains zebra in the uMkhuze Game Reserve, the waterhole was a fascinating new experience.

 

New” is the theme for the WordPress Photo Challenge of 02/01/2015

Warmth

What could be warmer than a mother’s love?

We’re catching up on the WordPress Photo Challenges we missed while on our extended summer holidays in the bush. “Warmth” was the theme for the challenge of 26/12/2014

Yellow

The grasslands of the Golden Gate Highlands National Park are a tapestry of wild flowers and seeding grasses in summer. Among these are some brilliant yellow varieties.

 

We’re catching up on the WordPress Photo Challenges we missed while on our extended summer holidays in the bush. “Yellow” was the theme for the challenge of 19/12/2014

Twinkle

The sun reflecting from a rapid in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park’s Little Caledon River

Twinkle

We’re catching up on the WordPress Photo Challenges we missed while on our extended summer holidays in the bush. “Twinkle” was the theme for the challenge of 12/12/2014

It’s the end of our summer in the bush…

We arrived back home in Pretoria after our epic 21-night summer holiday in the bush. We’ll soon start wrapping up with a weekly trip report of the beautiful wild places we visited. Today we’re simply compiling a gallery of the photos we posted on a daily basis while we were away.

Summer in the bush: Golden Gate, 2 January 2015

Lovely sunshine here at Golden Gate Highlands National Park today

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New Year in the bush: Golden Gate, 1 January 2015

2015 dawns over Glen Reenen Rest Camp in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park.

Happy New Year everybody!

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Summer in the bush: Golden Gate, 31 December 2014

We couldn’t think of a better way to see out 2014 than by scaling the Brandwag Buttress in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park

The Brandwag Butress

The Brandwag Buttress

View of the Golden Gate Hotel & Chalets and the road to the small town of Clarens from the top of Brandwag this misty morning

View of the Golden Gate Hotel & Chalets and the road to the small town of Clarens from the top of Brandwag this misty morning

Our 2014 in pictures

Looking back at the fantastic places we stayed at while exploring South Africa’s wild places in 2014…

Summer in the bush: Golden Gate; 30 December 2014

We’ve exchanged the hot and humid coastal plains of Kwazulu-Natal for the crisp mountain air of the Golden Gate Highlands National Park in the Eastern Free State, for the final leg of our epic summer holidays.

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