Traveling in South Africa
These are some of the best pictures that I have taken throughout the years. I do not have a professional camera, all the photos were taken with my Samsung Galaxy S4,S6 and S8. If I had a camera the photos would have been a lot better quality.
The following two pictures were taken on one of my sites, where I had to be on site before 7:30AM. During the winter the sun only rises at about that time. One of the perks of being awake before sunrise is the pictures that you get out of it:
Epping Industria
The following two photos were taken atop Table Mountain after a two and a half hours trek up the mountain. The only thing I can compare the climb to is that of climbing stairs for two and a half hours and when you finally get to the top there is another 400-500m walk to get to your final destination. But, as you can see form the pictures it is worth it:
Table Mountain
Strand (Western Cape)
The next is a Cape Dwarf Chameleon commonly found in gardens, but only in the region around Cape Town:
Old Mac Dadd Lodge, Elgin
The lodge has one of the cleanest dams that I have seen, I went for a swim but it was cut short due to the freezing water temperatures:
Umhlanga, Durban
The following picture was taken in Durban from the 17th floor balcony at sunrise.
Tesselaarsdal
I took this picture on one of my sites, Tesselaarsdal is situated about 25km outside of Caledon in the Western Cape. On this project we had to build retaining walls to stop the water erosion in the river, this is one of the eroded areas:
Montagu, Western Cape
The next tree pictures were all taken in and around Montagu, the first two are of a bird called the Ibis. There is a small dam in the middle of the town that is enclosed and serves as a breading area for the birds.
If you look at the top of this picture you can see the old English fort. The fort was constructed and manned during the second Boer War between 1899 and 1902. One of the reasons I took this picture was because of the very subtle yet funny vandalism done to the sigh, it can be seen if you look closely:
