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“Travel through South Africa, May 2011”
From South Africa, posted by Arlo Midgett on 5/07/2011 (167 items)
- Africa!!
- Our first flight on Malasia Air
- Our first view of Table Mountain from the airport shuttle — Oooo, spacey!
- Our $70/night hostel room (without even a bathroom!)
- Rainbow on the Waterfront
- Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think there should be signs that say "Drop &…
- Cape Town from the cable car station
- Rotating cable car
- Looking down on Sea Point, I think
- We tromped over to Maclear’s Beacon and then down Platteklip Gorge.
- Hey, none of that around here!
- Surprisingly, there’s a whole wetland water-table thing going on on Table Mountain!
- Tons of these guys running around
- Table Mountain Cockroach. It would stick its butt up in the air and HISS at us every…
- 2.5 hours of climbing down "stairs" like this left our legs burning for 4 d…
- Looking out over Cape Town
- Perched over Cape Town
- Yes, that’s a very scary ledge
- Platteklip Gorge. Just 2.5 hours down to the bottom!
- Giant Eel
- Clownfish galore
- You can climb into the middle of the tank
- Lionfish
- The Predator Tank Oksana wanted to go diving so bad…
- Closeup on a ray (Old man lips!)
- Clever marketing
- More clever marketing
- I like how my reflection makes this look like a 1970s-style studio portrait.
- Froggie
- Penguin
- Penguin Feeding
- Made of beads! (The elephant, not Oksana)
- A recycling ad by Coca-Cola
- Soda crates!
- Someone decorated the soda crate guy
- Fezzes are cool.
- Mama Africa, in Cape Town
- Ostrich, Kudu, Springbok, and Crocodile
- We moved from the room on the left to the room on the right. Both in Cape Town, both…
- Our Cape Town bus tour (worth it)
- Free earbuds!
- Table Mountain
- Table Mountain
- Devil’s Peak
- What do you think is going on here?
- Africa has some strange flora
- I really liked this statue in the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
- Path through the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
- Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
- Non-green plant
- Feathery
- A part of Table Mountain in the background
- Now you know how Q-tips are made!
- It was windy
- No idea what happened to Oksana in the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens…
- Constantia vineyards
- Sampling one of five wines on an empty stomach (for about $5, which included two souv…
- Stringing up the new vines
- Constantia vineyards
- Toad.
- I can’t really tell how many there are.
- This is all you had to do to have a monkey climb around on you…
- That’s right, I have TWO monkeys on my back!
- Babboon
- Blue balls (Oh come on. How could I NOT post this photo?)
- Ducks. Or something.
- More color ducky things
- Well, it was sort of getting cold outside…
- Toucan
- Mowhawk
- Bat-eared Fox
- Some storky-bird thing
- Raptor
- Broken leg
- Flamingos
- Cute!
- On the Metrorail "Plus."
- Ironically, and I kid you not, this was the ONLY day we saw anyone with a vuvuzela!
- Performing Shakespeare
- African penguin
- No kidding.
- Pop quiz: Who lost at paintball?
- Just going for a waddle around the block
- Posing with the penguins
- A Dassie, or Rock Hyrax
- The African (Jackass) penguin colony at Boulders
- Oksana’s favorite picture
- Boulders Beach
- Coming down the rock to check us out
- They’re always trying to make a clean getaway
- Penguin hole
- Posing with the penguins
- Penguin nesting
- Love that ginger brew. (A Coca-Cola product!)
- You would think that our train ride would have been much more thrilling, based on the…
- Um…?
- Pfff. Who needs scaffolding?
- We had this entire guesthouse to ourselves in Gansbaai. I love the off-season!
- The view from our window in Gansbaai
- I sat at the bay windows, waiting for this moon to rise
- That’s the shark cage.
- Watching a Great White go by
- It’s more exciting that she makes it look.
- Lookit them chompers!
- It’s coming right for us!
- Going for the bait
- Looking down on a Great White Shark
- Swimming by the boat
- Bait
- Our chum
- chomp!
- Please keep your fingers inside the cage at all times.
- Rays
- I’m ready for my closeup
- Incoming
- Our closest encounter of the day. This shark’s tail slapped the cage right in front …
- It honestly never once occurred to me that I could touch one of the great whites as t…
- Sometimes they went under the cage
- They never let the shark get the bait; don’t want to habituate them
- Through the bars
- Roadside sign
- Admiring her neck
- Amazing eyes
- We had something special
- Bleargh!
- Runway walk
- They’re not kidding
- The ostrich is all like, "What the hell is going on back there?"
- Hanging on for dear life!
- Neeeoooooowwwwww (race car noises)
- Nice save
- Ostriches
- My posse
- "Seriously, dude. Shut up."
- You’ve got a little something there on your beak.
- What?
- XXXTREME CLOSEUP
- The view from my viewfinder
- Oksana is always telling me not to squint when she takes pictures of me in the sun.
- Some Porteños we met in South Africa emailed me some photos they took of us at the Ca…
- "What f-stop are you using?"
- Where’s the food you promised us?
- What you can’t see here she’s standing on a huge Van de Graaff generator.
- Supposedly the eggs could support 200kgs
- Self portrait
- Had to get a picture with the ostrich midget!
- OMG WTF ELE!
- Kirstenbosh Botanical Gardens panorama
- A gift from our safari guides
- Me, painting the column with light
- I think this was called the bedchamber, or something like that
- Loved the ceiling
- I missed what they called many of the chambers because I was always lagging behind, t…
- A column seen from below
- The Cango Caves They used to use this room as a concert hall
- Self portrait with a flashlight
- Shadowplay
- Descending down to the concert hall
- Closeup on the ceiling Unfortunately, many many people take home "souvenirs.&quo…
- My eyes are too wide
- More Cango Cave formations
- Our room was COLD during 2-day the power outage!
- What did this sign say?
- Just a dog with very cute ears
- What are you doing there?
- EVERYTHING IS NOT OKAY!!
- Another photo Oksana shot from the car between Durban and Pretoria
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