Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Yesterday I drove down to Port Elizabeth to collect Kate at the airport with the thought of an afternoon game drive through Addo Elephant Park on the way home to Grahamstown. We have a SA National Parks Wild Card subscription which gives you free entry for a year and so it's a real incentive to get into... Continue Reading →
We went back to Featherstone Kloof yesterday to see the King Proteas and all the other winter flowers. We have had a warm sunny spell lately and so lots of flowers are blossoming in the grasslands and fynbos. It was a real mix. There's this year's Proteas with the most amazing coral pink shades, the... Continue Reading →
This is our favourite weekend walk. Direct from the front door is a 14 km hike that starts by crossing the Grahamstown bypass and then goes up over the grasslands of Mountain Drive before dropping down 'heartbreak hill' and into Featherstone Kloof . Then it's along the valley, across the stream, through some woodland and... Continue Reading →
I went out to take pictures of the large full moon rising tonight - no success with those - but there was a spectacular sunset to soak up. Grahamstown seems to specialise in midwinter sunsets but you have to be quick as the play of light alters very rapidly. These two pictures were taken only... Continue Reading →
It's the shortest day today (for us in the southern hemisphere) and distinctly warm here in Grahamstown (+25 forecast for this afternoon). Time for a bouquet of flowers to celebrate the turn of the seasons.These flower pictures were all taken during our nine weeks in the Nordic region and England.
As we went from Sweden, England and Scotland to Iceland we pursued the coldest Spring in 50 years northwards. So we were still seeing the lovely Spring flowers well into the middle of June! Here's a selection from Iceland. My memories of Iceland will always include seeing the thousands upon thousands of dandelions, marsh marigolds... Continue Reading →
The only sunny day that we had in our two week stay in Iceland lasted well into the night. These pictures were all taken in the late evening from Sölvanes farm. We sat out until almost midnight and watched the sun skimming across the horizon to the north. The light was quite special: pearly and misty... Continue Reading →
It took us nearly a week of travelling before we got to a genuine rural hot pot: Fosslaug in Skagafjörður. Our hosts at Sölvanes (Elin and Magnus) kindly gave us a map and description otherwise we would not have found it. They told us that the hot pot was built using traditional materials of rock... Continue Reading →
On Friday we drove up to north-west Iceland through beautiful sunshine to stay at a lovely hill farm called Sölvanes. It is located high up in a valley with an expansive outlook to the north down Svartadalur and direct to the Arctic. Here's a couple of panoramas: the first one taken driving up to the... Continue Reading →
Pictures from our travels today from Borgarnes (where we are staying) out to the Snæfellsnes peninsula.
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