South Africa Summer Holidays 2013-2014


I hope you enjoy the gallery I have put together exploring my holiday back in South Africa.

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Heathrow Terminal 4, on my way to South Africa
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Checking luggage in.
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Window seats are always welcome :)
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Welcoming faces
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Tastic licking my face!
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Guineafowls in the early morning
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A bit of train spotting
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Cape Canary
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Socializing
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Sun rising
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This is the view from my sisters house overlooking a beach called Trekkoskraal(Ox pulling paddock). The weber in the middle of the picture has been well used these past few weeks!
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I have been on quite a few outrides whilst I have been home. This is one of the views of the veld in the back field.
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This whom I am riding is Bochelli, he is very sweet & well behaved.
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I took this picture outside my friend JP's home whilst he took a smoke break.
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Mom & Dad enjoying a glass of wine (Probably watching Law and Order) in fleas(the dog) company.
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The weather has been perfect for a braai (bbq) atleast twice a week
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My dad just finished building this swing. My mom came along to help give it a stress test along with Gelina the Borzoi
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Here we are in Cape Town at a theme park. In the picture is Megan(JP's sister), JP (Short for Jean-Pierre) & Anne-Marie (JP's girlfriend). I have been friends with this lot since i was about 7-8 y/o
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Here is Noah making sure all the chickens get a bit of crushed corn. If you look closely you might see a few chicks knocking about.
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Matthew keeping a watchful eye.
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Matthew showing Noah a chick up close and personal.
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New Years Eve, at a music festival with Kathryn.
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Enjoying good times at the festival
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Sillioutes on the rocks
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My friend Lee took this picture of me with high tide coming in, I was taking a photo of him as he took this picture. We are at a beach called Paternoster.
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Here is the picture of Lee I took.
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Another picture of Lee.
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Another picture Lee took.
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Lee explaining to JP & Anne-Marie how to capture the best picture.
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Here we are visiting some friends who live in Table View, this pub is called 'The Blue Peter', it has an excellent view of Table Mountain and serves excellent Pizza & other confectionaries.
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View of Table Mountain from The Blue Peter
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Festive mood
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For my Dad's 64th Birthday we visited a wine farm in the Cape Winelands. This town is called Darling and the cellars are called Cloof.
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Enjoying the cool breeze coming down from the mountain behind us.
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Waiting for lunch to be served (after a bit of wine tasting)
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For my Dad's birthday we held a braai(bbq) for a few of his & my mom's friends. For starters I prepared mussels & for main meal we served Angel fish and Snoek(also a fish)
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My sister schooling a heavy horse
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My parents on a tractor
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Mom and myself at the beach
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Lucy (my sisters dog)
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This past weekend (2nd/3rd Febuary) we went camping at Paternoster, this is the view of our tent.
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Sunset looking out at the bay
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Clear water sea-weed
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More sillioutes
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Max looking for sea-gulls.
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Last sunset