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The Cape Peninsula, at the south-western tip of Africa is an area of natural beauty, where rugged mountains fold down to a coastal plain on the edge of the restless seas. With it’s unique Fynbos – the Cape Floral Kingdom is considered “among the very hottest of the world’s biodiversity hotspots” and an array of fascinating wild creatures live within it’s environs. Living on the edge of a suburban area I’m fascinated by nature’s robust activity at the interface of urban and wild.
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I love your slide show…wonderful nature shots. Thanks
June 18, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Dear Sunshine, it’s wonderful to have the opportunity to connect through WP, from two different sides of the world.
June 18, 2012 at 8:41 pm
I really like your site! I was in Cape Town back in 2005 but unfortunately it was for business and I had very little time for photography. I got some nice pictures of penguins though…I hope I get the chance to go back some day…
Ernie
July 2, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Thanks Ernie. Hope you get the chance to return. The penguins are great to photograph.. comical little creatures.
July 2, 2012 at 9:28 pm
Beautiful, congratulation to your lovely blog, I like it!
Love DIna
July 10, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Thanks Dina! I’ll enjoy following yours too …
July 10, 2012 at 2:23 pm
just follow you…
July 30, 2012 at 3:18 am
Thanks Hilal, I’ll take a look at your blog.
July 30, 2012 at 11:06 pm
well said: “fascinated by nature’s robust activity!”
August 7, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Appreciate your comment, thanks. Although for wild creatures living on the urban edge there’s also a fragile balance…..
August 8, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Nice series of photos..
August 11, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Thanks efratadenny for visiting my blog.
August 11, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Liz, I was inspired to visit your blog by a beautiful comment you made on a blogging friend’s site, and am pretty much thrilled that I did. I so appreciate your attitude toward wildlife and you’re photographing creatures I’ll never see here in the Great Lakes region of the US – well, I have seen a cormorant… but not fifty
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August 11, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Thanks Sid for your comments, and for your interest in my blog
Blogging really opens up different realms and i’m as curious to know what happens in your Great Lakes region. With our urbanising planet think we have to start looking at natural history in a different way.
August 11, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Beautiful slideshow, Liz. Thanks.
August 11, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Muchas gracias!
August 11, 2012 at 9:12 pm
great nature photography and slideshow, Liz. you have a great eye.
August 19, 2012 at 6:08 am
Thank you! Still enjoying your Merge post, lingering within your image on that ladder……
August 19, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Truly awesome photos of creatures I have not seen before…thanks for the slideshow.
August 19, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Thanks for visiting, glad you enjoyed the slideshow.
August 19, 2012 at 9:46 pm
And the penguins are too cute, and photos of the animals huddled together are adorable — what are they?
August 19, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Thanks for the comment… in a huddle are Cape Clawless otters. They’re shy creatures, don’t like people getting close, so I was quite lucky to get these shots (telephoto lens).
August 19, 2012 at 9:45 pm
Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful, lovely wildlife photos!
August 30, 2012 at 1:37 am
Thanks for the comments, Amy.
August 31, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Hi Liz,
I’d like to invite you to present a varity of your waterimages om my blog, are you interested? I’m momentarily presenting “Wasser” and it’ll be running for the next 3 weks. If you’d like to shove my friends your great impressions of your seascapes, then please get in touch with me. Thank you!
Love
Dina
August 31, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Hi Dina, thanks for the water images invitation – i’d love to. Any particular angle, size and how many?
August 31, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Great, I’m so happy that you’ll join us in the watervernissage!
Unlimited number, we’ll make a pick. It’d be interesting to have pictures that we don’t see too much of in Europe, like whales and pinguins, your bautifeul seascapes from antoher part of the world. Your favourites. ?
You’ll find my mailadress in “about” on the blog.
Have a lovely day,
Dina
August 31, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Gorgeous images. The caterpillars are particularly stunning.
September 25, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Thanks Elena, those caterpillars! Transform into gorgeous moths/ butterflies …. Next stage coming soon!
September 26, 2012 at 1:44 pm
What an amazing place you live in! And your photographs are amazing to match. Fascinating blog —
September 25, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Thanks for dropping by …. Hope you’ll revisit
September 26, 2012 at 1:41 pm
I love your pictures. They don’t only remind me of a journey long past, but inspire me to improve my own photography skills. Thanks a lot.
Greetings from London
Peggy
October 5, 2012 at 11:37 am
Thanks for visiting, Peggy. I see your blog is full of English adventures too… lovely
October 5, 2012 at 5:37 pm
So nice shots! I love that owl!
And great thanks for your comment and stop by.
Hope you’ll revisit.
October 6, 2012 at 11:11 pm
Thanks for the comments. Hoping to get back to check on the owls, the chicks should have hatched. Lovely postings in your blog, I shall enjoy
returning.
October 7, 2012 at 9:03 am
Hi, you gave God awesome glory for your beautiful take on His creation! Would love to explore more of your lovely photos. — April
October 10, 2012 at 1:25 am
Thanks April, isn’t it a world of creative wonder out there!
October 10, 2012 at 7:28 am
i always like a good slide show
October 13, 2012 at 9:52 pm
Glad you enjoyed it!
October 20, 2012 at 7:49 am
Wow, beautiful capture of the birds!
October 18, 2012 at 8:44 am
Thanks, good time to catch them – dressed to the hilt in mating plumage..the two bishop’s make a fine splash. Handsome fellas!
October 19, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Loved the slideshow.
October 21, 2012 at 12:41 am
Thanks Colline, hope you’ll visit again. I try to update every couple of months following nature’s seasons
November 10, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Oh wow, beautiful photos. I like the closer shots of animals. And the ancient paintings are fabulous.
November 6, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Thanks, more to come!
November 14, 2012 at 11:44 am
Hi Liz,
Just found you via our shared perspective on US politics on Mel’s ‘Out Walking the Dog’ blog and I’m so glad I did. I’m privileged to have visited SA twice, though sadly on business with little spare time. What time I had allowed me to climb the face of Table Mountain and drive down to Cape Point on one trip and visit Pilanesberg NR on the other. It’s a beautiful country with stunning wildlife that I’m now so pleased I can feel in regular touch with through your blog. Drop by The Badgers Eye sometime and say hi. Similar theme to your blog but with different weather
best wishes
Mark
November 12, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Just had a wonderful browse through your blog. What an amazing variety of bird species, and loved the badger photos. Interested to read about the common issues on environmental management. Shall enjoy keeping up with your news.
November 14, 2012 at 11:40 am
Beautiful! Love the pink flower and the animals
November 13, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Thanks for visiting Niki. I’ll be posting more on the flowers and animals this month. The bulbs are flowering, and the masses of pink watsonias look fantastic at this time of year.
November 14, 2012 at 9:43 am
I am so happy to see your site; each post appeals to my interests, and the photography is amazing! In Latin America I enjoy studying petroglyphs, and these paintings remind me of a petroglyph in quito ecuador. i have studied it twice, and the brilliance of their art is amazing.. such efficiency of line – the essence of human form in only a few strokes – in stone!
it would be wonderful to see these that you feature in person.. oh, to have a dozen lives and time to explore all of these wonderful places!
lisa/z
November 17, 2012 at 4:57 am
Thanks for the encouraging comments and for dropping by my blog. Yes, there’s beauty in the simplicity of the rock art. Some of the petroglyphs here too are extraordinary in their execution… with such crude tools. I admire too the paintings for their capture of movement. Agree, there’s so much out there to discover in our world! I enjoyed visiting your blog, your images based on the molas. We travelled through Panama, but never made it to San Blas – that applique work is highly prized!
November 18, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Really lovely picture, I myself really love Capetown this really brought back memories.
November 18, 2012 at 10:43 am
Thanks! I’m glad it brought back CT memories
November 18, 2012 at 10:20 pm
My goodness! What gorgeous gorgeous pictures. It looks like you live in a most beautiful part of this world. Thank you for visiting my blog. Isn’t it fun to admire nature’s beauty from around this brightly spinning planet?
November 29, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Kathy, thanks for dropping by. I feel very fortunate to be surrounded by such beauty. I enjoyed visiting your blog and marveled at the imagery in your post on the “Bare bones … I agree, there’s a lot to admire out there … and how wonderful to share in nature’s inspiration
December 1, 2012 at 8:06 pm
A wonderful gallery for a fantastic corner of the world! I’ve also just read your page on baboons, which is very interesting, but I do have to say that I’m still a little freaked out by them. I’m looking forward to reading more of your posts
December 1, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Amazing photo’s. You are a wonderful photo taker. It is not my thing even as I do it i this challenge. My camera broke and got it back now. Thanks for coming over to my blog today.
December 2, 2012 at 12:04 am
my favorite: the dassies!
December 3, 2012 at 1:39 pm
They sure do have appeal! Thanks Frizz.
December 3, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Your photography is so beautiful, I often return just to rest my eyes on your captures of nature for a little while. It opens my heart, it slows me down and then something happens. Unpredictable.
Love
Dina
December 7, 2012 at 8:41 am
Tusen takk! What wonderful comments, but think you bring magic too with your curating of photography blogs
. Seems there’s a synchronicity as well, drawing inspiration from nature … and there’s Bente, who posted orchids this week, while i’ve been eyeing wild orchids that have just popped up in the veldt.
December 7, 2012 at 9:41 pm
You’ve got an interesting blog and some nice photos here. I’m adding myself to your list of followers.
– Bob
December 12, 2012 at 4:53 am
Thanks for following, Bob. I popped over to your blog and was interested to see your collection of ‘cats’. Wonderful photos. I’ll be checking back over from time to time.
December 12, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Welcome to my humble blog. I’ve been a photographer for 42 years and now, in retirement, I can truly enjoy my craft just as an amateur. – Bob
December 12, 2012 at 12:47 pm
You have an inspiring blog. Retirement i ‘guess means that you can highlight the subjects that you enjoy the most?
December 14, 2012 at 10:28 am
I worked 42 years before retiring two years ago. I had the same hobbies my whole life. Now I get to pick the time, weather and place I wish to go to continue my photography hobby. In Winter that limits me because we’re surrounded by mountains covered with snow yet there’s still much to see.
December 14, 2012 at 2:11 pm
It’s interesting to see the pictographs on the rocks. I took a great vacation to 5 national parks in the Southwestern United States last year and witnessed many such writings on the cliffs in Monument Valley, home of the Navajo Nation. Your wildlife and plant photographs are really nice. You have a lot of talent so I look forward to seeing more. – Bob
December 12, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Thanks for your kind comments, Bob. It’s interesting that there are similarities in rock art in so diverse regions in the world. The collective unconscious, revealing our past histories.
December 13, 2012 at 10:51 pm
Thank you for visiting and the like of my Weekly Photo Challenge post “Delicate”.
December 15, 2012 at 10:55 pm
Cave paintings inspire primal feelings… they need a little Denny’s sign in the background.
December 16, 2012 at 8:07 am
Hi Laura, you’re right; especially when you’re on location and can get the feel of the place. Not quite sure about the reference to Denny’s? Is that not a fast food chain? The paintings, a graphic display of food on the menu?
December 16, 2012 at 7:51 pm
You live in a land of wonders, and your photos are suitably wonderful!
I love this blog –
Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year to you!
December 23, 2012 at 4:31 am
Such beautiful photography!! Thanks for sharing your part of the world with us. It makes the corners Earth seem a little closer together when we can see those lovely images.
January 12, 2013 at 6:35 pm
Thanks Laughing Bluebird. By the way your header photo is a lovely panoramic shot, where is taken?
January 13, 2013 at 7:12 am
I wish I could take the credit for that beautiful picture. I don’t even know where it was taken. It just came with the blog theme, “Ocean Mist”. I chose it for the photo!
January 14, 2013 at 1:35 am
Lovely choice! That fits well with the theme and the nice thing about photos is being able to transpose the spirit within…
January 14, 2013 at 7:29 am
Thanks for stopping by my blog! Great work!!! Looking forward to seeing more..
January 18, 2013 at 7:20 pm
Thanks for signing up to follow
January 18, 2013 at 9:20 pm
i like the last pict, soo cute : )
January 29, 2013 at 9:21 am
Thanks Ade …. a prinia chick; it was as round as little plum pudding! Had quite a time learning to fly, little wings really had to work hard for ‘lift-off’!
January 29, 2013 at 1:01 pm
Amazings photo’s of nature.Thanks for sharing.
January 30, 2013 at 5:15 pm
Thanks, NF … think we have a similar passion for nature
January 30, 2013 at 9:46 pm
Gorgeous photos. Can’t wait to see what else you post.
February 2, 2013 at 3:58 am
Thanks! I’m happy to have piqued your curiosity!
February 2, 2013 at 8:11 am
gorgeous!
February 2, 2013 at 2:14 pm
Thanks Urban Curator! May i return the compliment, and say i enjoyed a browse through your stylish blog.
February 3, 2013 at 3:27 pm
thank you, i am truly flattered!
February 6, 2013 at 7:55 pm
A land of beauty, I love it. Thanks for coming over to my blog.
February 8, 2013 at 11:09 am
Thanks Bob, and you have some wonderful bird shots on yours
February 8, 2013 at 3:05 pm
I love your photos! It’s gonna be exciting to follow your blog.
February 10, 2013 at 12:23 pm
Thanks for the follow, S; appreciate your interest
I’ll pop over and have a look at what you’re doing…
February 11, 2013 at 12:11 am
VERY, very beautiful collage. Awesome sharp, crispy, clear images.
February 17, 2013 at 6:03 am
It’s wonderful to get your compliments!!! Thank you.
February 18, 2013 at 1:17 pm
i love the rock art, it proves a point thats we have always have a need to communicate. Even before the written word we had our blog even while we chased the mammouth. Thants for visiting and the comment.
March 3, 2013 at 5:55 pm
Thanks for taking me home… I was lost in the memories there for a good few moments!
March 3, 2013 at 10:19 pm
Your photos are GORGEOUS! THANKS for visiting my funny-caption photoblog and leaving a “like.”
–John R.
April 9, 2013 at 3:49 am
Thanks John! Well, you made me smile as i browsed through your site, and may i return the compliment – your stretocarpus collection is quite magnificent!
April 9, 2013 at 3:25 pm
Your photos are truly wonderful, Liz. The zebra is my favourite.
April 13, 2013 at 9:49 am
Thanks for liking my Change theme photo. Your nature photography is spectacular. I’ll be following.
April 13, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Thanks for your interest
Your blog is inspiring, good luck with the training. Those mountains will be some challenge 
April 14, 2013 at 9:00 pm
Loved looking at your photography. Thank you for visiting my blog and liking my Photo Challenge post.
April 14, 2013 at 1:21 am
Thanks Melanee for the reciprocated visit:) Great to have your comment.
April 14, 2013 at 9:35 pm
Wow! Beautiful pictures! Love them all
April 17, 2013 at 4:48 am
Thank you Uday, your blog has some pretty stunning portraits.
April 20, 2013 at 4:32 pm
The wonderful spectacle of nature in your photos. A formidable work to capture the beauty at the right time. Congratulations!
April 19, 2013 at 9:37 pm
What a beautiful blog! Your pictures are fabulous! I’m thinking of taking up a new hobby of being a doggie photojournalist. We’ll see how that goes.
April 21, 2013 at 5:15 am
Thanks for the compliment, Wiley. I took a peek at your words of wisdom, and there’s a lot of sense there.
From your perspective, photojournalism would be a different slant…..go for it!
April 21, 2013 at 10:33 am
LOVED IT,HEY I NOMINATED YOU
http://yassminelnazer.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/nominated-for-an-award/
April 29, 2013 at 8:07 pm
Thanks Yassmine! I appreciate the gesture
but would like to decline the award. I’m really pressed for time at the moment, but will check out the other sites you’ve highlighted.
April 30, 2013 at 2:28 pm
nvm
May 1, 2013 at 5:33 pm
Excellent slide show.
May 3, 2013 at 7:35 pm
Lovely compliment, thanks Mike 585.
May 3, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Your wildlife images are amazing ! It’s so fantastic to see what you get to enjoy in South Africa. You are truly fortunate.
May 4, 2013 at 1:19 am
Yes, we’re lucky to have such diversity. Cape Town is one of the few cities with an open mountain park nature reserve. The parks board have their work cut out maintaining it!
May 4, 2013 at 6:12 pm
Wonderful,shots Liz. Love Cape Town
May 6, 2013 at 1:36 pm
A dream adventure! Full of excitement and new discovery. Thanks.
May 6, 2013 at 1:41 pm