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And so we’re back…

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… from Outer Space Mossel Bay.

Well, the Mossel Bay area. We didn’t actually stay in Mossel Bay at all.

And what a great week it was. If there was any criticism I could make, it was that I would have liked a bit of extra time in each of the places we stayed. Three very different locations, but each with their own charm and unique offerings.

And then, to finish off an already memorable week, a quick trip back into town to have a go on the world’s longest over sea zipline (their words, not mine). 1.1km. Quite the ride.

Can you see me? The little parachute was a necessity for continuing life and mobility, given the strong tailwind.

Inevitably, there will be more photos (it seems that over 2,500 were taken over the seven days we were away), but equally inevitably, there are a number of jobs I need to catch up with, Lightroom is “being difficult” and I surely can’t actually be expected to sort all of those images on a single day, anyway.

Right?

Right.

So: more soon.

Djibouti misses out again

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Here’s something that I never really thought about before I moved down here. World Tour. And what that actually means.

The world is a big place, and it’s pretty unreasonable to expect a band or artiste to play in every country. But the image below speaks volumes about what “the world” means to many people Up North.

And it also explains why we have to go to Bergen to see a band play. (Never mind that the Bergen dot is smaller than the Cape Town one, or that a-ha’s recent World Tour was an actual genuine World Tour.)

Next up for us in Cape Town is David Gray. Great for SA, sure, but Djibouti misses out again.

More?

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Over our back garden, last week.

A Jackal Buzzard being attacked by a African Harrier Hawk.

Is this a new phenomenon, or are birds literally attacking each other all the time and I’m only just noticing now? After all, in the last couple of weeks, there was this. And then this. And now there’s that (above).

What you can’t see in this image is the other Jackal Buzzard. That’s because the other Jackal Buzzard had already been attacked and was probably thinking that it was safer just to spiral away into the Spring-like sky rather than being attacked again. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this second Jackal Buzzard made the same decision very soon after this shot was taken.

Lioness

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An amazing game drive this morning at Botlierskop. Well worth the pre-6am wake up.
We saw so much [cheetah kitten!], but getting close – really close – to this lioness was a personal highlight.

Literally so close that I couldn’t even get her whole head in frame from the far side of the truck. My daughter was within a metre of those teeth.

An incredible morning. (And yes, I still have a daughter.)