Silvermine Nature reserve is on my doorstep, its the mountain range that embraces the Deep South Valley. Its is an incredibly diverse landscape filled with the fynbos & Protea Flora kingdom. Fynbos itself grows in a 100 to 200 km wide coastal belt, stretching from Clanwilliam on the West Coast to Port Elizabeth on the […]
What is a blue moon The correct, original definition is that a Blue Moon is the third full Moon in an astronomical season with four full Moons. A normal year has four astronomical seasons – spring, summer, autumn, and winter – with three months and normally three full Moons each. When one of the astronomical seasons […]
I experienced an incredible weekend getaway with friends at the Drakensberg Amphitheatre. We stayed in cottages that looked over this powerful valley of outstanding beauty. Above the amphitheatre is Mont-aux-Sources peak where, as its name implies, the Orange river starts its long journey to the Atlantic ocean. The Thukela river cascades down the face of the […]
I live in the Deep South in Cape Town and love it. The South Peninsula beaches with my dogs. Just how I like to spend a beautiful day. White fine sand, turquoise waters, good surf, awesome people with their dogs & families and lots of beautiful space & sky. These beach photographs are of Noordhoek beach, Kommetjie […]
There’s an old weather saying: ring around the moon means rain soon. And boy oh boy has it been raining since then:-) There’s truth to this saying, because high cirrus clouds often come before a storm. Notice in these photos that the sky looks fairly clear. After all, you can see the moon. And yet halos […]
Noordhoek and the Greater valley. How I LOVE thee:-) I live in this incredible village. I was born here and not sure if I will ever really leave for too long. I grew up surrounded by two incredible oceans . The Indian & the Atlantic. One warm and dreamy and the other wild and cold. […]