About DeWetsWild

Thank you for joining us here at DeWetsWild!

We are the de Wets: Dad Dries, Mom Marilize and our son Joubert.

We have always had a great affinity for the wild outdoors and we’ve built our careers and family life around protecting, enjoying and showcasing the diverse natural heritage of the beautiful country we were blessed to be born in. We can put together a custom-made guided tour of South Africa for you, or you could join one of the tours we’ve already scheduled.  Even if you just need us to help you plan and book your own trip to visit to one or more of our wonderfully wild South African destinations, we’d be thrilled to assist! DeWetsWild is a proud member of SATSA – The Southern Africa Tourism Services Association – giving you peace of mind that your well deserved holiday in South Africa’s wild places is in capable hands.

Have a look at the wildlife and wild places we’ve featured here at DeWetsWild. If you are looking for photographs of beautiful South African scenery and wildlife to use in a project, please have a look at what we have to offer.

We’re really looking forward to meeting you and hope we’ll see you around here often. Come share our love for, and experiences in, South Africa’s spectacular wild places, from the smallest nature reserves to the biggest national parks, with us. You can follow along via e-mail subscription, Facebook or your WordPress account, and please feel free to join in and share your thoughts with us!

3 Years old: May 2013. Following an elephant at Tembe
5 Years old: May 2015. Kamberg tranquility with Mom.
6 Years old: June 2016. Antlions are so interesting! Satara, Kruger Park.
Catching ants to feed to the ant lions
Campfire in Dinokeng
Close to Mom at Golden Gate
Close to Mom at Golden Gate
Echo Ravine
Fun and games at Golden Gate
Fun and games at Golden Gate
Fun and games at Golden Gate
Royal Natal
Photographers in action at Royal Natal
Royal Natal
Giant’s Castle
7 Years old: April 2017. Low with the flow at Giant’s Castle
Joubert Cape Vidal July 2017
Happy family: Napi Wilderness Trail with my mother, sister and brother
Southern Tip of Africa
8 Years old: December 2017. Sunset over the Atlantic
De Wets at the Cape of Good Hope
Rowing on the Touw River at Ebb-and-Flow
In deep conversation on the suspension bridge at the Storms River Mouth
A flower among the flowers at the Cape of Good Hope – these white flowers are known as Cape Snow (Syncarpha vestita)
Making sense of the toposcope at the Valley of Desolation
Taking in the scenery at the Valley of Desolation
8 Years old: April 2018. Opening the gate at Haak-en-Steek Cottage in Mokala National Park
The Birthday Boy and his friends ready to go visit the lions
The Birthday Boy and his proud mom
Having fun at Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park
9 years old: March 2019. Joubert photographing guineafowl at Thendele
Walking in Royal Natal
At the Cascades in Royal Natal National Park
Walking in the Mountains
9 years old: March 2019. Walking in the Mountains
Golden Gate Photographer
Joubert at Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary
9 years old: May 2019. Joubert at Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary
Joubert with good friends at Mahai in the Royal Natal National Park
Joubert interacting with an elephant at African Hills Safari Lodge, June 2022
Joubert eyeing a bull elephant at Tlopi Tented Camp in Marakele National Park
National Women’s Memorial in Bloemfontein
Tietiesbaai
West Coast Fossil Park
Just north of Bloubergstrand
Seal Tour, Hout Bay
Seal Tour, Hout Bay
Cape Point
Cape Point
Kirstenbosch

 

387 thoughts on “About DeWetsWild”

  3. Bipasha's avatarBipasha

    Thank you for dropping by my blog & liking my recent post! Even better, ’cause it brought me to your interesting blog here, keep up the good work!

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  8. Capt Jill's avatarCapt Jill

    Your blog makes me want to go see S Africa as soon as I can 🙂 Your photos are gorgeous!
    Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking some of my pictures of the sea.

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  9. Lori Robinson's avatarLori Robinson

    so great to now know about you and be connected. I lived in S Africa years ago, and now when I am not traveling in Africa I am blogging and writing about Africa, Animals and all things wild from a small cabin in the Wyomings Teton National Park. Lori from AfricaInside.org

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      Thank for joining us Lori – hope to see you around here often! Had a quick look around africainside.org and absolutely loved it – we’ll certainly be popping in there every so often 😉

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  10. Sangeeta's avatarSangeeta

    I dont have words to describe your blog….Awesome would be an understatement. I have had a fantastic virtual trip with your blog and cannot wait to turn it to reality.

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  11. nancydriessen's avatarnancydriessen

    Dear de Wets family,

    I have been enjoying your beautiful pictures and nice comments on your blog.
    We are a Belgian family and have been visiting South Africa several times. We also always visit the Kruger park during our stay. We always come during the months july and august because of the school holidays of our children and as I am a teacher myself, we can only come for a longer period during these months. This year however, my husband and I want to come to South Africa during another season. We have the opportunity to come either during the first week of march or the second or third week of april. Which period would you recommend? We have been on many game drives so seeing much wildlife is not a must. We also want to do a bushtrail in Kruger for three days. Is april still green season or is vegetation already turning brown during this month? I would love to see the Kruger green and lush for once. How about the rains during these two different periods?
    Thank you so much in advance for your answer.
    Kind regard,
    Nancy Driessen,
    Belgium, Europe

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      Hello Nancy, and welcome here at de Wets Wild!

      The Kruger National Park is absolutely beautiful in the summer, especially after good rains, and despite the lush vegetation making game viewing a little more challenging you will still have a wonderful time! There are so many young animals around then and the birdlife is also much richer then, as many species from equatorial Africa migrate down to us for the summer. Photographs taken when the bush is green and lush is also so much more appealing.

      We’re sure you are already very excited about your trip? To us the planning and anticipation is almost as good as being in the Park!

      If we were lucky enough to be faced with the choice you are, I would go for March. In April 2014 the Park and the roads there and back will be much busier with visitors, as it is the South African school holidays early in April and then there’s also three long weekends at the end of the month, starting with Good Friday on the 18th, so the park will be jam packed with guests. Getting a nice booking for early March 2014 will be much easier and you won’t have to share your sightings with quite so many visitors. Weather-wise there isn’t enough of a difference in our experience when deciding between the two though March can be a couple of degrees hotter than April might be, and there is probably on average a better chance of rain in March.

      We hope you’ll find our answer useful, and please feel very welcome should you have any other questions!

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  12. mynuttydubai's avatarmynuttydubai

    I’m still learning how the whole “pingback” thing works, so I thought I’d stop off here too and tell you that I’ve nominated you for a bunch of awards today. I linked back to your blog in my post – so look out for it 🙂

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      Thank you very much MyNuttyDubai for sharing your awards with de Wets Wild! You’re doing us a great honour and we appreciate your online friendship to no end!

      Thank you also for sharing de Wets Wild with your friends in NuttyDubai! ;-).

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  13. peterjearle's avatarpeterjearle

    Looks like my kind of blog – and thanks for the follow. There was a Dries, gamewarden, on Noot 4 Noot the other night who did well. Looked like you, could it have been?

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      Welcome Peter!

      Guilty, yes, it was me on Noot-vir-Noot… Though I work for a conservation agency I’m afraid it’s a normal office job at our Head Office in Pretoria, not as a game warden (boy, don’t I wish!)

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      Hi Zainab, and thank you!

      Yes, I (the dad) am called Dries (pronounced “Drees”), short for Andries (the Afrikaans version of Andrew) after my grandfather.

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  15. jamespage358's avatarjamespage358

    Hi I received details of your blog from my step daughter in Dubai (Mynuttydubai) Love the photographs. Just need some more time to look through some of your older posts. Feel free to visit my blog http://jamespageblog.wordpress.com which details my wife and my travels and comments on a number of other subjects close to my heart, like rhino poaching

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      Very grateful that you got in touch with us jamespage358! It certainly seems we have very much in common and we hope we’ll be able to swop many stories about South Africa’s wild places!

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      1. jamespage358's avatarjamespage358

        Thanks for visiting my blog Great to meet like minded people even if it is only electronically. Will be following your blog for more great shots and stories.

  17. mynuttydubai's avatarmynuttydubai

    Thank you for visiting my blog – especially all the way from back home 🙂
    I make sure that I visit the bush each time I go back home – it’s one of my absolute favourite things to do 🙂
    Pilanesburg is my most commonly visited reserve since my mom has time-share there and it’s easy to get to from home (JNB) for a short day trip out there when I’m visiting on a limited period of time.

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  28. Jane Lurie's avatarJane Lurie

    HI de Wets family- Thank you for following my photography blog. I’ve enjoyed your nature photos and I’m glad you’ve been stopping by mine.

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  29. Tish Farrell's avatarTish Farrell

    Thanks for visiting my blog. You have a fantastic site. All those wonderful bird and animal pics. What a wonderful showcase for southern African wildlife.

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  30. BobR's avatarBobR

    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!

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  35. Rosemarie's avatarRosemarie

    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.

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  36. Jane Lurie's avatarJane Lurie

    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!

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  39. fgassette's avatarfgassette

    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!

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      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!

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      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!

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      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!

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  46. mjculverphotography's avatarmjculverphotography

    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

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      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

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  47. xox's avatarPeripatetic Eric

    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.

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      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!

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      1. Mar's avatarmardmood

        Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my post. I love what you guys are doing! It will open my eyes to another world, a beautiful world in South Africa. You’ve got yourself a new follower here, keep up with the awesome work!

  49. Leya's avatarlagottocattleya

    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!

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      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!

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  50. mjculverphotography's avatarmjculverphotography

    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.

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      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!

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