A terribly wet and windy morning saw us heading westwards, to the ever popular African Penguin colony at Stony Point Nature Reserve in Betty’s Bay.
Stony Point Nature Reserve, Betty’s Bay
Stony Point Nature Reserve, Betty’s Bay
Kelp Gull (photo by Joubert)
African Penguins (photo by Joubert)
African Penguin (photo by Joubert)
Hartlaub’s Gull
African Penguin chick
White-breasted Cormorant
African Penguin
Kelp Gull
African Penguins
Cape Cormorant chicks begging for food (photo by Joubert)
African Penguins
African Penguin chick moulting
Cape Cormorant
African Black Oystercatcher
African Penguins on the boardwalk at Betty’s Bay
Cape Cormorant chicks
Crowned Cormorant
Cape Cormorant feeding chick
Cape Fur Seal tearing a drowned cormorant chick apart
Cape Fur Seal tearing a drowned cormorant chick apart
Kelp Gull flying away with a piece of cormorant chick
Crowned Cormorant
Dassie or Rock Hyrax
Kelp Gull feasting on a dead cormorant chick
Egyptian Goose
Later, after a hearty lunch in the hamlet of Baardskeerdersbos, we headed to the Agulhas National Park and Africa’s southernmost point (enjoying it in much better weather than we had at the start of the day!).
Agulhas National Park
Agulhas Lighthouse
Cape Girdled Lizard
White-fronted Plover
Wreck of the Meishu Maru looking ever worse for wear
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