South Africa -- Personal Pictures -- Southern Area From Cape Town
These pictures were taken on a June 2004 trip guided near Johannesburg by Etienne Marais and near Cape Town by Richard Grant. We are happy to make them available to our friends for their personal use, but they are copyrighted and should not otherwise be reproduced without permission.Jump to personal pictures -- northern area from Johannesburg.
Yearling Ostriches
Drive through the mountains from Cape Town to the Tanqua Karoo
Tanqua Karoo
Stark beauty of the Tanqua Karoo at dawn
Tanqua River
African wild cat
Rock outcrop on the way south from the Tanqua Karoo to the Cape Agulhas plains
Mary with hearth fire -- cottage at an Afrikaaner farm near Cape Agulhas
John with hearth fire
Aloe in bloom, pasturelands near Cape Agulhas
Bontebok
Eland at De Hoop Nature Reserve near the South coast
Impala
Steenbok
King protea, the national flower of South Africa
Mary birding north of Cape Town
Aloe
Simonstown harbour from our hotel room. The pelagic trip left from this dock.
Headland near the Cape of Good Hope
John and Mary at the Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope
Passing the Cape of Good Hope, outbound, just after sunrise on the pelagic trip
Mary on the pelagic trip south of the Cape of Good Hope (outbound)
Fishing vessel Protea and birds
Passing the Cape of Good Hope, on the way back
Mary on the pelagic trip south of the Cape of Good Hope (on the way back)
John in Cape Town
Our guide in the south, Richard Grant, his wife Ria, and Mary
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