#Nature - 86 posts

The jacaranda trees in Joburg are blooming particularly late this year. In this post I will speculate in why.

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

After spending two days at the beach in Plettenberg Bay, we took a quick drive over the Outeniqua Pass to spend two days in the desert in Oudtshoorn.

The Swartland a rural agricultural area 50 kilometers north of Cape Town. I spent about a week there and here are eight of the best moments from my visit.

The Wilds, a beautiful park near downtown Joburg, has come a long way since my first blog post about it in April 2016. Help reclaim the Wilds this Sunday.

Autumn is a great time of year to visit Stellenbosch. I spent eight days there, and I loved the views every bit as much as a I loved the food and wine.

The Tswaing Crater, on the border of Gauteng and Northwest Provinces, is the site of a 220,000-year-old meteor impact and is now a nature reserve.

Every year in March, the green field of Delta Park explode with pink and white cosmos flowers. This is the South African version of autumn leaves.

In the first week of my #Gauteng52 challenge, Ray and I went hiking on the Hennops Trail north of Joburg. We met several cows and a donkey.

Ray and I spent three days at Stone-Hill, a dog-friendly self-catering resort in Magaliesburg. We had a great time even though we don't have a dog.

There are only a few dozen white jacarandas in Pretoria, South Africa's jacaranda capital. Two weeks ago I went to find them.

I spent the night at Shiluvari Lakeside Lodge in Limpopo, on the shore of Albasini Dam, and caught the most beautiful sunrise ever.