Wuss in Boots
  • Home
  • Destinations
  • Travel Diaries
    • Australia >
      • Northern Queensland
      • Western NSW & Victoria
      • Victoria's Great Roads
    • New Zealand >
      • North Island, NZ (2017)
      • South Island, NZ
    • South Africa
    • Mini Diaries >
      • A Weekend in Sydney
      • Search for the Peacock Spider
  • Reviews
    • Dickens Museum - London
    • Magic Kingdom - Orlando
    • Crookwell Potato Festival
    • Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium - Auckland
    • Wingspan - Rotorua
  • Articles
    • Birding Babble >
      • Jewels of the Outback
      • Diamond Firetail
      • Birding for a Non-Birder
      • Sturt Expedition: In Search of 400
    • First Trip, Best Trip
    • Adopt a Plushie Pal
    • A Passion for Postcards
    • Travelling to South Africa
  • About
    • About Us
    • Profiles
    • Disclaimer
  • Contact
Cape Town and Rockjumper Tour

South Africa

Epilogue

16/6/2017

0 Comments

 
For our last morning in Africa we went for one last session of birding. The temperature was the coldest we've experienced yet (-4°C) and there was a heavy frost, turning all the surrounding fields crisp white. We didn't see many birds, they weren't as silly as us, but we did get much closer views of a pair of Grey Crowned-Crane.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Twenty - Sani Pass

15/6/2017

0 Comments

 
Got another stamp in our passports today. Yep that's right, we day tripped to another country.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Nineteen - Hilton to Underberg

14/6/2017

0 Comments

 
This morning we had breakfast at 7:00am like civilised people before heading off to the bird in the Karkloof region, finding quite a few nice birds, but not before doing a spot of sight-seeing at Howick Falls. (Sight-seeing, who am I kidding? We were looking for Peregrine Falcon on the cliffs and there happened to be a waterfall too.)

Read More
0 Comments

Day Eighteen - St Lucia to Hilton

13/6/2017

0 Comments

 
On the road by 5:30am. Seriously, who pays to do this? Wimpy's for breakfast and then we headed for Dlinza Forest. We climbed a tower up into the canopy with great views over the forest. There were three birds we were targeting, and we found the first of them from up here, the endangered Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon, now surviving in only three forests. A Crowned Eagle also flew over at close range, carrying a Vervet Monkey in its talons.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Seventeen - St Lucia

12/6/2017

0 Comments

 
6:45am. Yes, another early start. This tour has an intense schedule, birding from dawn till dusk and beyond. I'm not sure how I'm doing with these posts, too much detail or not enough? It feels like maybe I'm just listing stuff, sorry if that's the case, but I'm writing them at the end of very long days. It's hard too, to decide what to put in, we see so many incredible sights every day, it would take me hours to write it all down.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Sixteen - Mkuze to St Lucia

11/6/2017

0 Comments

 
Forest walk to start the day, the birding highlight a beautiful male Purple-banded Sunbird in the morning light. If you haven't already been googling these birds, google this one. Stunning.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Fifteen - Mkuze

10/6/2017

0 Comments

 
6:00am start with an hour long drive up to the game reserve. We passed through a lot of rural villages with simple mud houses and where goats, cows and chickens freely roam.


Read More
0 Comments

Day Fourteen - Wakkerstroom to Mkuze

9/6/2017

0 Comments

 
7:00am start to pop in a quick session of birding before breakfast. We headed up into the hills in subzero temperatures, our guide freaking out because the windscreen iced over and he had never seen that before. Clearly he's never been to Central West NSW.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Thirteen - Wakkerstroom

8/6/2017

0 Comments

 
Today we birded the highland grasslands around Wakkerstroom. (Btw I've finally figured all these crazy South African words out, they are Dutch. South Africa was settled by the Dutch, so things like 'wildebeest' simply mean 'wild cow').

Read More
0 Comments

Day Twelve - Skukuza to Wakkerstroom

7/6/2017

0 Comments

 
Departed Skukuza camp at 6:30am for our last morning in Kruger. Animal activity was pretty quiet this morning because of the low temperature. Our mammal sightings included a lone hyena huddled in the grass, looking rather eerie in the mist and bathed in golden morning light.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Eleven - Satara to Skukuza

6/6/2017

0 Comments

 
Once again out the gate when it opened at 6:00am. Headed south from Satara camp and got our first new mammal sighting of the day sitting by the roadside. Spotted Hyena. A juvenile sat up nicely only a couple of metres from our vehicle, giving us a great look at it.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Ten - Satara

5/6/2017

0 Comments

 
SAFARI!!! Right, out the gate at 6:00am as soon as it opened. Today we had an open safari vehicle, driven by a local guide.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Nine - Orpen to Satara

4/6/2017

0 Comments

 
SAFARI!!! Right, now that's out there, we'll start from the start.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Eight - Zaagkuildrift Road

3/6/2017

0 Comments

 
Meeting time this morning was 5:30am, my kind of holiday. We hit the road and headed north to Zaagkuildrift Road, where the habitat is arid acacia bushveld. This road is the eastern extent of the ranges for a lot of arid country birds so if we missed them today we wouldn't get another chance to see them.


Read More
0 Comments

Day Seven - Rockjumper

2/6/2017

0 Comments

 
Today was a travelling day. We bid farewell to the beautiful city of Cape Town and it's not hard to see why so many people who visit the Mother City decide to make it their home.


Read More
0 Comments

Day Six - Robben Island

1/6/2017

0 Comments

 
This morning we made our way down to the Nelson Mandela Gateway at the waterfront for our trip across to Robben Island. Whilst we were waiting to board the ferry we got to see the swing bridge in action, and also saw a big Cape Fur Seal bull haul up into the viewing area.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Five - Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens

31/5/2017

0 Comments

 
First up I have to say I kind of feel like Tippi Hedron. The gulls are incessant. They squawk all night long, they flock around the hotel for no apparent reason, and periodically they can be heard stalking across the rooftop. Thankfully none have dive-bombed through the windows and pecked our eyes out. Yet.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Four - Cape of Good Hope

30/5/2017

0 Comments

 
This morning we boarded the Cape Point Explorer City Sightseeing bus for a day of touring the Cape Peninsula. We headed south out of Cape Town, through the upmarket suburbs of Newlands and Wynberg.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Three - Table Mountain

29/5/2017

0 Comments

 
They say that the only predictable thing about the weather in Cape Town is that it's unpredictable, and that if you wake up and the sky is clear, get your butt up Table Mountain before it changes. So that's what we did.

Read More
0 Comments

Day Two - V & A Waterfront

28/5/2017

0 Comments

 
Well, we may not have seen any birds yesterday but we certainly heard some. Our hotel is by the waterfront and all night long the gulls were squawking, but it only annoyed me because I didn't know exactly what species they were. Upon further investigation in the morning from our hotel room window, they turned out to be Hartlaub's Gull. Our first ever African birds.
Now, anyone whose prone to fainting better sit down. Today was a pretty cruisey day. Yeah that's right, I didn't try to see everything Cape Town has to offer in one day.


Read More
0 Comments

Day One - Africa Via Antarctica?

27/5/2017

0 Comments

 
Up at 6:30am, then a short drive to the airport. Checked in and then grabbed some breakfast. Bid farewell to Travel Buddy's Mum, then off through security. Boarded with no hassles and then settled in for our fourteen-hour flight to Johannesburg.


Read More
0 Comments
Picture
COPYRIGHT © 2017-2020 WUSS IN BOOTS · DISCLAIMER
  • Home
  • Destinations
  • Travel Diaries
    • Australia >
      • Northern Queensland
      • Western NSW & Victoria
      • Victoria's Great Roads
    • New Zealand >
      • North Island, NZ (2017)
      • South Island, NZ
    • South Africa
    • Mini Diaries >
      • A Weekend in Sydney
      • Search for the Peacock Spider
  • Reviews
    • Dickens Museum - London
    • Magic Kingdom - Orlando
    • Crookwell Potato Festival
    • Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium - Auckland
    • Wingspan - Rotorua
  • Articles
    • Birding Babble >
      • Jewels of the Outback
      • Diamond Firetail
      • Birding for a Non-Birder
      • Sturt Expedition: In Search of 400
    • First Trip, Best Trip
    • Adopt a Plushie Pal
    • A Passion for Postcards
    • Travelling to South Africa
  • About
    • About Us
    • Profiles
    • Disclaimer
  • Contact