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along the way we saw a rock kestrel

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the next stop was Seeberg View Point where it was only drizzling

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while it seemed to be raining in Langebaan

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we had a hitchhiker

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and saw a butterfly

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and this is the last picture of a flower from WCNP – promised

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on the way to Geelbek we saw another tortoise

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and a hadeda

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while my SO had lunch, I watched the attics of the cape weavers

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on the way out of the park we saw the last lifer cape robin-chat (23)

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Although we were rather late already, we stopped briefly to have another look at table mountain

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We arrived back in Cape Town at 4:30 pm and were stuck in a real traffic jam. When we phoned the guest house in Fish Hoek, they told us that they cannot wait for us and that the security guard will let us in after 6 pm. Now this would have been a problem as we had to be in Tokai at 7 pm. Fortunately the traffic jam was terminated shortly after and there was still someone to let us in when we arrived at the guest house. Thus, we even managed to take a shower and got to Tokai in time.


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Lovely bird photos again, Tina ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^

The butterfly might be a Burnished Opal Chrysoritis chrysaor, very cool O\/ O\/ O\/

Angulate Tortoise festival ^Q^


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20.09.2014

Kirstenbosch

I woke up at 5:30 am when the first train passed our guest house and decided to get up. Although it was rather chilly, I spent some time on the veranda watching the birds. When my SO finally got up as well, we left towards Kirstenbosch. We parked at the upper entrance gate and went to the tearoom to have breakfast. Thus it was almost noon when we started our walk in the garden of extinction.

This time I thought that I could provide names to the plants as I took pictures of the name tags but it looks like I missed some and I am not sure that the tag goes with the plant in the picture all the time. :o0ps:

dune pelargonium – pelargonium suburbanum ssp. suburbanum

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we went to the arboretum to go on the boomslang walkway.

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red-winged starling

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I tried to catch them in flight and these are the best pictures O/

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