Because of all the local spring and summer activity it’s been a few months since my last post from our South Africa trip. I will need to focus on finishing this travelogue as it is approaching a year since we were in South Africa! I will try and get a few posts up over the Christmas and New Year break to make up for the one I missed this past week due to a hardware glitch necessitating a very slow data restore over USB2 instead of Firewire. All sorted now with additional storage to accommodate next years images.

We had got as far as Knysna and were staying for a few days at Under Milkwood as a base to explore the area up as far as Storms River Mouth. This put us very close to a lovely spot on the lagoon for Knysna birds and a brief drive had us settled next to Woodbourne Pan enjoying the range of birds and photography opportunities they offered. Edin and I would head there every evening and again on our final morning before leaving. Evening light was ideal as we could sit next to the road but a little down the embankment so our silhouettes didn’t break the skyline and we had lovely warm light from the setting sun behind us. There was a good range of birds, from a Fish Eagle who I managed to locate after hearing his call, to numerous waders, Herons, Egrets and Ducks (Cape Shoveller and Teal).