We decided to take a well earned holiday in South Africa before the move to Baku.
We spent 4 days in Cape Town, visiting Table Top Mountain, the winelands, Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned) and The Cape of Good Hope.
Next stop was Hermanus (Walker Bay) for the whale watching. Every year in Sept - Nov, the Southern Right Whales visit these bays to calf & breed.
Unfortunately the weather did not allow us to take a trip on a whale watching boat so we took an air safari instead. The take off & landing were a little scary ... the runway was a dirt track in a vineyard ! We saw a number of whale pods, mostly mothers with a calf but we also saw one pod of 5 whales.
The final leg of the trip we flew to Johannesburg and then out to Kruger National Park to stay in one of the private game reserves for 3 days.
This was definately the highlight of the holiday, we took two jeep safaris each day and saw so many animals that it would take a whole page to list all the wonderful memories ... we saw lions, rhino, hippo, zebra, giraffe, warthogs, deer, eagle, crocodile, elephants - including a baby that was less than a day old
but the highlight of the trip was the leopards which we saw on three occasions, mother and two young males.
And to end our South Africa adventure .... this is probably the strangest photograph we took ........
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