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Birding Cape Town Photography Sea Western Cape

Cape Point – The Fairest Cape in all the World

We visited Cape Point Nature reserve and got a bit suntanned, a couple of new birds and as usual some really great images,

Buffelsbaai. I had a swim trying out the new action camera, but was warned out of the water by the surfers. Said they had seem some sharks and fairly close in.  This is Dylan braving the shark infested seas…

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Its a shark, really. How do I know? It moved faster than the surrounding kelp. Seriously, they were not very big and didn’t seem to take much notice of humans in the water.

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Platbos on the Atlantic Side was so very beautiful.

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Of course a polarising filter helps.

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Dissent in the family. Juvenile birds always give trouble.

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Smitswinkel Bay

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Erica – they seem to like the disturbed edges of the roads.

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GIFs Helicopters Photography

Animated water bombing of Signal Hill

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Astro-photography Eclipse

Lunar Eclipse – Blood Moon

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Astro-photography Cape Town Photography

Load Shedding has its benefits

The local electricity utility Eskom has supply problems and they drop various parts of the country to ease the burden. There are some benefits.

Living in the middle of the city reduces the chances of good astro-photography till Eskom get it wrong, then the stars come out.

Table Mountain and Lions Head make wonderful back drops.

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Cape Town Photography Sea Travel

Wind Swept Waves

The South Easter Wind was really pumping through on Sunday.
I got some nice spray pictures.

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Cape Town Photography

Misty Morning

The mist rolled in off the Atlantic at dawn making for beautiful pictures.

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Birding Cape Town Photography Travel

Rondevlei – Sans Water

Rondevlei has been drained in preparation for burning the reeds. So there is not a lot of water around. We got some good pictures though.

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Birding Photography Travel

Vedlddrif

A recent trip to Velddrif produced some lovely pictures. Here are some, there are more pics here:

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Cape Town Photography

Rainbow over Table Mountain

We were treated to an amazing rainbow over Table Mountain today and the rainbows end was right across the road.

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Birding GIFs Photography

Yellow billed duck gif

I photographed this yellow billed duck on motor drive which gave me five images seconds apart, so I turned the five images into an animated gif and it came out quite nicely.

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