The adventures of Bill and the birders ( or patterns in nature)
It's already February and I haven't written a newsletter for months. I apologise, but life has just been too exciting.Tonight as I was looking back on my adventures in order to choose a theme for a newsletter, I was flooded with wonderful recollections of times with friends and clients in Victoria Falls, Hwange, Cape Town, Uganda, Belgium, Singita, Table Mountain, Timbavati, The Succulent Karoo, Namibia, The winelands, The Cederberg . . . I hope to share all of these adventures with you but the one that is demanding to be heard...
Fancy a bit of paradise then?
We’ve been walking the new super-easy-super-beautiful five-bay slackpacking trail. It is on the West Coast of South Africa, not far from Cape Town. This is an area that has never really received credit for its incredible beauty. The walk was hypnotic and days merged into one continuous experience of blue ocean, white beaches, rocky shores, and exquisite vistas punctuated with flowers and birds. In spite of it being holiday season we saw almost no other people and had the privilege of the sound of the sea to accompany our own thoughts for...
Merry christmas from the West Coast
We've been having such a wonderful time. On christmas eve we saw this beautiful natural palette of colours at Langebaan Lagoon. It was a day of textures and colours and images because later we enjoyed the view and came across this old West Coast cottage on a granite hill. By the evening we had travelled to Paternoster, where we donned silly hats and enjoyed a traditional braai (barbeque). ...