On the road again

I just love the scenery on the way home from Natal to Johannesburg along the N3, especially going through the hills of Natal to the flat scenery in the Freestate.  I'm getting quite good at taking photos from the car while it's moving too!

This shot is my favourite, I just love all the brown wintery colours at this time of the year...

Just before Harrismith

Farm in the Freestate

And of course, I just have to find ruins to take photos of!

Weekly Winners: 9 August - 16 August

I'm going to try and choose my absolutely favourite shots that I took during our holiday in Shelly Beach, and because I missed last week's WW, I'm going to show you photos from the 9th onwards.
Hope I don't overdo it, but I'm finding it very difficult to choose from the 700 odd photos that I took. LOL! If you can, please choose your top 3, because I want to submit 3 of these to Camera Club this week and I need some help choosing ;)

Watching the sea

There was a LOT of debris on the beach which was washed up a few months ago in massive storms. The beaches have still not been cleared properly but the massive logs and trees made wonderful props.

Debris at sunrise

Debris at sunset

Debris under the moon

Tossed by the sea

The logs made wonderful jungle gyms too!

Leaping off the log

Woohoo!

Copying my brother

Cracks in the wall

I was JUST too late for this shot, but I still like it (I managed to cut off part of his wing)

Flying from the wave

Seagull on the rocks

And of course the magnificent sunrises! It's a pleasure having small kids when you know you have noisy "alarm clocks" to wake you up in time to set up tripods on the beach to wait for the sun to some up ;)

Sunrise at Shelly Beach

Dreamy sunrise

Seagull at sunrise

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Abandoned bucket

We came back today from our holiday in Shelly Beach, on the Kwazulu Natal south coast.  It's not the best time of the year to go there  ito weather, but it was a good break. 
I've taken SOOOO many photos that I don't actually know where to start.  In fact, I think I'll post some every day for the next week. Hopefully one or two of them are going to be good enough for Camera Club this coming Wednesday night. 
I thought this one covered this week's photohunt quite nicely.  The theme is colourful, and the colours of the bucket that the kids were playing with really stands out against the colours of the beach and the sea.

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Photohunt: Sign at Ushaka

We took the kids to Ushaka in Durban to see the aquarium and dolphin show on one of the non-beach days this week (it was too cold). As soon as I saw this sign, I knew this would be my post for today :)

I just have to show you more of the place, so here are some photos from the aquarium and the show.

Connor watching the ray. He absolutely LOVED the aquarium, but was a bit bored with the dolphin show. He was in awe of all the fish, especially the big ones.

The shark tank
... and the dolphins. This is always my favourite part :)

I had considered using this as my sign post too. The whole aim behind the show is environmental awareness.

Other photohunters here

Kids on the beach

I cannot possibly not show you pics of the kids on the beach :)

Ramsgate at dusk

We took the boys to the Waffle House in Ramsgate as a treat on the Monday. The weather had been extremely mizz and we'd been inside all day. And apart from the most amazing waffles, the views of the lagoon and the beach were just beautiful!


Infinity by Adam Tennant. This statue is just on the edge of the beach.

Reflection of the boats in the lagoon.

Last Saturday at Shelly Beach

I took these photos on our walk on the beach in the evening. We just had to walk across a boardwalk that stretched across the top of the narrow marine reserve to get to the most gorgeous beach. It's not a swimming beach because of all the rocks, so it was quite deserted as you can see.


A log that had washed up on the beach

Skywatch Friday #5

We drove home from the Natal south coast today, and I took these shots from the car on the N3 freeway between Mooi River and Harrismith.
I know it's small, but the moon is visible in each one of the photos. I was trying to get a shot of the moon and the landscape, not easy at 130kph ;) It's a pity that there's a reflection from inside the car in the last shot.

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Sunrise from Shelly Beach

Helloooo chinabeans :) I'm back. Hope you're all looking out for my posts ;)
I've been in Shelly Beach for the last week, and boy have I missed the 'net. Next time I'll organise a 3G card or something to stay in touch.
We stayed at the MOST gorgeous place, Azure View in Bondi Beach Resort. The only thing marring the view of the sea was a marine reserve, so I can't really complain. And the pics on the link to the flat... the place looks EXACTLY like that!! Absolutely stunning!
Here's a little something to whet your appetites... the sunrise yesterday morning from our balcony :)

I'll be back later tonight to post more ;)

"She sells sea shells...

... on the sea shore"

Well, not really. My mom picks up sea shells every time they go to the coast on holiday, and she has now got a basket full of them on a table. Bradley used to love rifling through them when he was younger, and today he was very excitedly showing me all the hermit crab shells that he could find in the basket (when we went to Ballito last year he got great pleasure out of chasing and catching the hermit crabs).

Impala

There were a lot of impala that grazed around the chalets. Lovely!

Crocs

On Sunday we went to Sun City. A waste of time actually, but Bradley enjoyed the croc farm.

Saturday

I can't possibly choose one pic for our game drives on Saturday, so here are my favourites.

We saw 3 rhinos. This one was very close to the road.


Wildebees at a watering hole


Red-billed Hornbill. There were so many of these beautiful birds at our chalet.


Male Waterbuck. He was watching the females crossing the road.