Six Months in South Africa: Late Winter Visit to Addo Elephant National Park

A late winter visit to Addo Elephant National Park yielded close-up views of buffaloes, warthogs, yellow mongooses, antelope and newly arrived songbirds.    Mist clung to Eastern Cape valleys an...

Six Months in South Africa: Hiking at Hogsback

Three days of hiking at Hogsback intoduced us to the quirky Eastern Cape high-country village’s knock-out vistas, hiking trails, birdlife and soul-stretching indigenous Afromontane forest dominated ...

Six Months in South Africa: Birding in Baviaans River Valley

Three days of spectacular scenery and birding in Baviaans River Valley, Eastern Cape, netted me new South African adventures and fifty avian species, including fifteen for my life list!   Vilis a...

Six Months in South Africa: Notes from Addo Elephant National Park

A self-drive game drive yields wildlife notes from Addo Elephant National Park and photos of warthogs, red-necked spurfowl, ostrich, elephant and red hartebeest.   After shopping in Port Elizabet...