Some scenic shots from South Africa

 Augrabies waterfall - nearly dry because of drought

 Blue Moon Bay Hotel Gardens, Saldanha

 Endless Karoo near Poffadder

 Cape of Good Hope - Atlantic Ocean

 Cape of Good Hope - Indian Ocean [take from same spot]

 The Iconic sign

 Klein Cedarberg at dusk and my chalet

 Ceres escarpment

 Kgalagadi at dawn

 Kgalagadi red sand

 Klein Cedarberg main complex

 Cedarberg rock paintings

Table Mountain complete with tablecloth

Cape Town area

We spent the last three days of our trip around the Cape Town/False Bay area and visited The Cape Of Good Hope, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Strandfontein Sewage Works, Gordon's Bay promontory, Stony Point Penguin Reserve, Harold Porter Botanical Gardens and even went on a Pelagic Trip [although this wasn't one of my highlights due to sea-sickness 2 1/2hrs into a 9hr trip].

 African Penguin

 Booted Eagle

 Cape Cormorant

 Cape and Bank Cormorant

 Cape Francolin

 Cape Rockjumper

 Cape Sugarbird

 Cape Teal

 Cape White-eye

 Crowned Cormorant [immature -I think]

 Egyptian Goose

 Orange-breasted Sunbird

 Red-winged Starling

 Rock Kestrel

 Southern Boubou

 Spotted Eagle-Owl

 Spotted Thick-knee - keeping an eye on me while facing the other way

 Southern Double-collared Sunbird

 White-breasted Cormorant

Helmeted Guineafowl

South West lowlands

This area covered comprises of Bontebok NP, Angulhas farm fields, Potberg escarpment and Da Hoop NP, which lie to the east of the Cape by about 200kms. All the areas have their specialist birds and we saw them all. Bontebok NP in particular was magical, with birds around the river plentiful and some quite rare for the area.

 Black-headed Heron

 Blue Crane

 
 Brown Hooded Kingfisher

 Malachite Sunbird

 Martial Eagle - immature

 Southern Red Bishop

 Olive Pigeon

 Brown-throated Martin

 Great Double-collared Sunbird

Hartlaub's Gull

Yellow-billed Duck

Off the fynbos back up to the Karoo

We left the coastal fynbos behind and headed back up to the Cedarberg mountains where we again spent 2 days exploring the area and the south part of the Karoo. We searched for and found most of the speciality species of the area while staying at the Klein Cedarberg Private Reserve complex, which was one of the most relaxing experiences anyone can have. The stars at night were incredible and the birding wasn't to bad either.

 Chat Flycatcher - I think

 Blue Crane

 Cape Weaver

 Cinnamon-breasted Warbler

 Cape Wagtail

 Cape Robin-chat

 Familiar Chat

 Karoo Eremomela

 Laughing Dove

 Southern Masked Weaver

 Speckled Pigeon

Karoo Long-billed Lark