We’re determined to continue spending as much time as we possibly can in South Africa’s wild places, whatever dangers there may lurk!
Humorous sign at the Saint Lucia Crocodile Centre, iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Seen in the Giants Castle Game Reserve
At the entrance to Ithala Game Reserve
Playful elephants in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park!
Warning: haunted viewsite in Ithala Game Reserve
Water cleanses, which is why a river in flood to me symbolises a new beginning; a clean slate, a fresh start, and getting rid of all the debris that clogs up life.
Depicted here is the Shingwedzi River and its tributaries in flash flood through the Kruger National Park, South Africa, following a cloudburst.
We’re participating in the online adventure travel and photography magazine LetsBeWild.com‘s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers. This week’s challenge is “New Beginnings“.
Happy New Year!
Our time at Golden Gate is drawing to a close – tomorrow morning we will be heading back to the city. But as if to console us, Golden Gate Highlands National Park has given us a rare and precious parting gift: a fleeting glimpse of a serval, a rarely seen small wild cat, just after sunset.
Nature has sculpted a whole bunch of unusual rock formations – on both a large and small scale – from the sedimentary sandstone here at Golden Gate Highlands National Park in South Africa.
(you can click on the images to see them enlarged in a gallery)
We’re participating in the online adventure travel magazine LetsBeWild.com‘s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers. This week’s challenge is “Unusual“.
A visit to a National Park is not always about the “hairies and scaries” – these photographs were taken while walking around the Golden Gate Highlands National Park today:
We arrived at another of our favourite South African wild places this morning: the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, located in the eastern Free State Province, where our base for the next three nights will be the charming Glen Reenen Rest Camp. Again we will give a proper report back soon, but for now we will try to post one or two pictures daily while we are here.
Today’s weather was overcast, rainy and cool but came sunset Golden Gate was lit in magnificently warm hues.
And so the sun sets on our last full day here at Ithala this time around. Of course, we are already planning our next visit!
Tomorrow morning we’ll take one last short drive before taking the road back home to Pretoria for Christmas. Luckily for us we are leaving for Golden Gate National Park, another favourite of ours, on boxing day.
We wish you and your loved ones a blessed Christmas!
Good evening again from Ithala Game Reserve!
On our afternoon drive today we came across this female white rhinoceros with her calf in dense shrubbery – we liked the shot so much we wanted to share it as our “pic of the day”.
Long may they and their kind have a home here in Africa!
This is a likely outcome when you surprise a temperamental elephant bull – he charges, kicking up dust as he goes!
(photo taken near Mopani Rest Camp in the Kruger National Park, South Africa)
For more of this week’s challenge: Surprise!
We got this picture of “Africa in the sky” this morning at Ithala – does this gap in the clouds also remind you of the shape of the African continent, as it did us?
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