Category: Nature

  • Rhino Massacre in South Africa Continues

    Rhino Massacre in South Africa Continues

    In South Africa, home to 90% of the world’s population of rhinos, a war against internationally funded rhino poachers is losing ground. Last year 333 were killed, nearly half of them in the Kruger National Park. The year before that it was 209. The year before that, in 2008, the total jumped to a staggering…

  • South African Sunset Painted By The Master Scientist

    South African Sunset Painted By The Master Scientist

    This photo was taken just after sunset with a Canon Powershot A460. If you painted this incredibly beautiful sky just this way . . well, it would look as if you changed your mind somewhere, wouldn’t it? The Bot River Estuary lies against the foothills of the Kogelberg mountains in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve and…

  • Smoke and Fire in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve – Day 2

    Smoke and Fire in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve – Day 2

    The Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve is in the heart of the Overberg about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Hermanus in the Western Cape, South Africa By late yesterday afternoon the wind was a factor, blowing strongly from the south-east. The fire was moving rapidly into the mountainous area north of the N2 national road, threatening farms…

  • Smoke and Fire in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve

    Smoke and Fire in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve

    After sunset the fire continued to burn as it marched over the peaks of the mountains in the distance at left casting a bright yellow glare in the night sky. Within minutes, yesterday afternoon, this fire had blossomed from a wisp to a towering column of smoke. The vegetation of Fynbos contains plant matter with…

  • Japanese Tsunami and the Amazing Resilience of Japanese People

    Japanese Tsunami and the Amazing Resilience of Japanese People

    Day five and utter devastation and mounting problems face the deeply shocked survivors of the worst Japanese seismic event in history. The Japanese people, in the first moments realised that something was different from the intensity and duration of the movement of the ground. The one-meter drop in sea level which occurred immediately after the…

  • Hottentots Holland Mountains of the Western Cape

    Hottentots Holland Mountains of the Western Cape

    Almost equidistant between Hermanus and Cape Town lies the beautiful Hottentots Holland mountain range. The excellent N2 national road must negotiate the Sir Lowry’s and the Houwhoek mountain passes. The recently upgraded road is in superb condition and is well graded and contoured. This region is the heart of the Western Cape’s successful fruit-growing export…

  • Deepest Sea Shoot for Avatar Sequel in the Marianas Trench

    Deepest Sea Shoot for Avatar Sequel in the Marianas Trench

    The author of Avatar, James Cameron, is assembling a team to dive to the bottom of the deepest sea. He is planning to shoot footage for a sequel to Avatar. The movie is set in the turbulent waters of Pandora, an alien moon, and it’s expected to hit the circuit in 2014. Cameron has commissioned…

  • The Beautiful Bot River Estuary

    The Beautiful Bot River Estuary

    Last year I took this photo of the lovely Bot River estuary. We are privileged to live within walking distance of its shores. You may notice, if you look up at the top of this page, the banner-header of this website is cropped from the same photograph. Time and time again I am drawn to…