Parks/Nature Reserves (Category) - 130 posts

I visited Arniston for two days and was blown away by the town's history, culture, and astonishing beauty.

On Sunday morning I stopped by the Brixton Cemetery to take pictures of a cleanup event led by Friends of Johannesburg Cemeteries.

Thorsten and Heather, aka the Blogitects, rode Phyllis the Ford Ranger FX4 on a nine-day road trip from Joburg to the Eastern Cape and back.

We took a walk through the Harvey Nature Reserve on Linksfield Ridge, which bisects Joburg's northern and southern halves.

NOTE: I originally wrote this post before January 6th, when pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol and mounted the biggest threat to American …

I went back to visit the Wonderboom Nature Reserve in Pretoria after ten years away. It was just as delightful as I remembered.

Last weekend I went to Westdene Dam, only a five-minute drive from Melville, for the first time. It was lovely.

Zoo Lake is one of the nicest and most popular parks in Joburg, yet somehow I haven't blogged about it for nearly ten years.

Since Joburg's parks re-opened, the Melville Koppies central section has been holding open days every Sunday morning.

Since inter-provincial travel is still banned and we can't leave Gauteng province, I've compile a list of cool daytrips to do in Gauteng.

After more than four months of lockdown, the Joburg Botanical Gardens and Emmarentia Dam are finally open again. I went to check things out this morning.

Last week I participated in a tour of Paterson Park, on the border of Norwood and Orange Grove, to check out the public art projects in progress there.