Africa Wild

Cape Town 30.9.2014




Tearful reunion, I'm so glad to be back on African soil, hosted by Michele. She prepared a fabulous program and we already leave the next day to West Coast, Dunepost, Eland Bay, Lambert Bay, Darling, Witzenberg.

I will post the name of the birds in French too, for my nephew.

The start is wacky .... a tire issue (and modem) makes us "lose" a few hours. This is the beginning of the great adventures.
It seems that all snakes are given the word to wake up that day. Puff Adder, Mole Snake and other unidentified are on the edge of the small roads of the national park, or still in life, for my happiness, or crushed by people too rushed!

Puff Adder/Vipère heurtante

wich one
a Cape Whip Snake... thank your for the ID Michele

baby Puffie

Cape Francolin/Francolin criard

Speckled Mousebird/Coliou rayé

1+2+3.10.2014

We stop to all hides, well almost, and the adventure continues, my camera fails ... because of a battery. We had hot ... both of us.
Dunepost, which I already knew, is a really nice camp. Large kitchen/dining room/living room, 2 bedrooms and terrace.



from the hide

the path

so far away

Inside the hide, White-throated Swallow/Hirondelle à gorge blanche

so green

so nice



in search of Whales

Seeberg bird hide

Common Whimbrel/Courlis corlieu

White-fronted Plover/Gravelot à front blanc

Grey Plover/Pluvier argenté

Kittlitz's Plover/Gravelot pâtre

Common Greenshank/Chevalier aboyeur

Curlew Sandpiper/Bécasseau corcoli

Black-winged Stilt/Echasse blanche

Three-banded Plover/Gravelot à triple colliers

After a good night, we leave for the north, Eland Bay , Lambert Bay in search of Ganets. Always the same snakes.... dead and alive. The scenery is beautiful, green, summer has not burned everything. I'm finally in the summer, a summer absent this year in Central Europe. It's still a bit fresh to eat on the terrace in the evening. Regardless, I'm there for seven weeks.

Cape Weaver/Tisserin du Cap fem.

Cape Weaver/Tisserin du Cap

Yellow Canary/Serein de Sainte-Hélène

femelle

Cape Bulbul/Bulbul du Cap

We stopped there in hope to find Pelicans, but all was already flew away... where

Grey Heron/Héron cendré



dry fisches

rob or present

not easy to eat

A little bit further, some Caterpillars ask our attention… what nice eyes they have, and a tiny Tortoise harrased by Crows and need help to not finish like all these Snakes… Michele do it and we can have a picture

Michele...

... and the Caterpillar

Grasshopper

Angulate Tortoise, 4-5 cm.
it seems the Crows already ate a piece

à suivre...

Nothing funny about Michele's Jacket....I like it!!!!!