Showing posts with label reptiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reptiles. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Kruger National Park - Part 4


We saw such a wide variety of wildlife on our slow five-hour drive north from Mopani Camp toward Pafuri in the Kruger National Park that I am sharing photos of that drive in parts. These photos were taken as we headed to a pit-stop at the Shingwedzi Restcamp. I also included a couple of pics taken at Shingwedzi.

I have added the names of the birds, animals and reptiles in the captions. Our favorite bird was definitely the Lilac-breasted Roller with all of its brightly colored feathers. We spotted them often enough that we started calling them LBR's.

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Lilac-breasted Roller

Lilac-breasted Roller

Cape Glossy Starling and Tsessebe

Cape Glossy Starling

Hamerkop (the shape of this bird's head
is like a hammer)

Three-banded Plover

Elephants

Female Impala

Male Impala

Giraffe

Giraffe

Young Giraffe

Vervet Monkey

Vervet Monkey

Hippopotamus and Hinged Terrapin Tortoise

Crocodile

Male Impala

Samantha at Shingwedzi Restcamp

Tree Squirrel

Striped Skink Lizard


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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Cape Town's Theme Park


This is year we took Amanda to Ratanga Junction, Cape Town's theme park, for her birthday. I had signed up for us to be members on the website for free and, when our birthdays came around, we received complimentary tickets. Amanda and I have birthdays a few days apart, so it worked out really well. We just had to pay for Robbie and Amanda's friend, Cristi.

You would have thought that we were VIP guests, because we had the theme park almost to ourselves. For most of the rides, the girls could go as many times as they liked, because they hardly had to wait or not at all. We went on a cloudy Saturday in early March. Sometimes the sun came out and a couple of times it drizzled. We think that perhaps there would have been more people if it had been sunny, but overall, the weather was pleasant.

It was a fun adventure for us, especially the girls, and I enjoyed capturing the moment on my camera.

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We caught the end of Martin Odd's Birds of Africa.

The girls got to touch the two owls.


The girls have their hands up in the
green and white car.

The girls have their hands up in the yellow car.

Hubby and I rode about half of the rides with the girls at least once. The roller coaster ride that I photographed and posted here is called the Bushwhacker and is a family friendly coaster. We also rode the big roller coaster called the Cobra. They have reptiles on display inside the waiting area, but we didn't have to wait. We could look at the neat variety of reptiles behind their glass enclosures while we walked right on through to the ride. It's an extreme coaster experience and one we didn't want to ride again, except for Amanda. We wouldn't let her ride alone, so she'll have to go again another year.


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Tina Morley

All original photographs by Tina Morley
unless stated otherwise. 1camera1mom is
mostly in English mit ein bisschen Deutsch.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

African Penguins at Stony Point


We saw penguins!
Wir haben Pinguine gesehen!

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On the same day that my daughter and I went Whale Watching in Hermanus, we also took a detour to see the African Penguins at Stony Point in Betty's Bay. It's about an hour-and-a-half's drive from Cape Town and the entrance fee is very little. Samantha and I were impressed with the amount of penguins that we saw. And, she spotted the cool lizards that I have included here. I'm so glad she came along on this outing. We had a really amazing time.

Info. Sign About African Penguins



Samantha on the boardwalk
with views of the penguins.


Another Info. Sign About African Penguins


Mother Penguin with Young

Samantha took this photo of me.

Info. Sign About Marine Protected Areas

Cape Cormorant

Rock Rabbit with Young

Rock Rabbit

Info. Sign About Girdled Lizards

Girdled Lizard

Southern Rock Agama Lizard
Bettys Bay

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Tina Morley

All original photographs by Tina Morley
unless stated otherwise. 1camera1mom is
mostly in English mit ein bisschen Deutsch.

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