This little fellow lives in the hills and mountains above the Verlorenvlei. I guess he was a little scared of the photographer: Armadillo Lizards have an interesting defense, in that if frightened, they will grab their tail in their mouth and curl up into a ball. This...
Recent article on busrep.co.za: Farmers hamstring tungsten mine plan West coast vlei threatened May 6, 2009 By Donwald Pressly Residents and farmers in the Verlorenvlei valley are resisting plans for an open-cast mine to produce tungsten. The valley is one of the...
The ancient vlei flows on, out to the sea; burgeoning with tiny fish which are eaten by pied kingfishers, reed beds humming and burbling with egrets, herons and ibises, the sky overhead full of avian traffic; cormorants, spur winged geese and hunting raptors, the...
June; a glorious month of rain and sunshine, thunder and lightning, green landscape and birdsong. Early some mornings a delicate scent of green peppers and in the evenings the scented thorn sweetened our ambles along the edge of the vlei. Going up a kloof one...
News from the Vlei #36 Winter 2007 and life on the vlei never had it so good. Snowy white cloud banks raised over the eastern mountains circled northwards and brought a mackerel sky and icy rain leaving the air clear and sweet. August saw 44 mm of rain in a series of...
Whenever I think that there cannot be any more interesting things to write about, we make another discovery! Considering the arid environment it is extraordinary how many forms of life we are finding. It is also amazing how quickly plants turn green or appear from...
We have finally been given the go ahead on our heritage settlement proposal, so Nick persuaded Amandla Construction who are completing the tar road from Veldrif to Elands Bay, to bring a huge front end loader and level our piece of land! Petrus from Springbok drove...
We made the big move on Friday 25th February 2005; I traveled in Lady Bird with Sam in the dog box and Tiger Lily in a basket on the back seat. Tiger meowed from Cape Town to the Vlei, a distance of some 250 kilometers! Nick followed in his bakkie with a trailer...
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