I am busy working through my different holiday photo’s and came across these few photo’s of a Kwikstertjie and a moth or butterfly, not quite sure what it is, but I think it’s a moth. Anyway my parents, the boys, their nephew and I went to Sandbaai for the September/October 2012 school holiday. My Father got the flu and my mom was also not feeling well so most of the times the 3 boys and I went for outings.
The boys and I went to Hermanus on the 30th of September 2012 to go and see if we could spot some whale’s. The Whale festival is always a huge thing in Hermanus and thousands of people come to this little coastal village to spot whales and our photographers of course can’t wait to capture that WOW shot of a breaching whale. This particular morning something totally different from a whale caught my eye. I spotted this Kwikstertjie with a Moth. First the Kwikstertjie just hopped around it’s pray and then it took it in it’s beak and moved around on the rock with it. I waited to capture it while eating it but did not have that luck.I took quite allot of photo’s of this but only going to share a few. After nearly half an hour of capturing the little Kwikstertjie and the Moth a young boy came running towards it and scared it and it flew away and I was not very happy. Why can’t the children’s parent’s teach their children not to scare animals and birds…
“How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?”
“Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.”
“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.”
Brittania Bay, West Coast, South AfricaBrittania Bay, West Coast, South AfricaSandbaai, Hermanus, South Coast, South AfricaSandbaai, Hermanus, South Coast, South Africa
Brittania Bay, West Coast, South AfricaJacobsbaai, West Coast, South AfricaSandbaai, South Coast, South AfricaSandbaai, South Coast, South AfricaHermanus, South Coast, South AfricaBlaauwberg, Cape Town, South Africa
“Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.”
I can not believe how time flies. This is my last post for my 52 week challenge. Don’t worry I will not stop with my Inspirational photo’s now. I still have thousands of photo’s that I have not even touched. Look out for your inspirational photo a day starting from tomorrow….
Potsberg, West Coast National Park, Western Cape, South Africa, 2012
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.” Henry Ward Beecher
Addo National Elephant Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 2010
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sandbaai, Hermanus, South coast, Western Cape, South Africa, 2012
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.” Buddha
Country View, Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa, 2012
“Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.” Leo Buscaglia
Kraaifontein, Western Cape, South Africa,2012
“Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want.” Jim Rohn
Country View, Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa, 2012
“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Saint Francis of Assisi
Kraaifontein, Western Cape, South Africa, 2012
“Those who possess strength have also known adversity.” Byron Pulsifer
Hubby and I went for our walk and stopped by one of the pools of water. You could hear the frogs but you could not see them. Then hubby caught one for me so that I could take a few photo’s of it. I don’t know what type of frog it is all that I know is that out off that small body comes a beautiful loud noise.
We left home just after 6 O’Clock this morning for our week of relaxation here in Sandbaai. When we got here around 7:30 it was cold and the wind was freezing. The boys helped us unpack the cars and then they went to show Andre their nephew where they usually play when we are here. Mom and I went to Hermanus to stock up on food for the next 3 days.
When we got back I dozed myself and Lian with some cold and flu medicine. Because it was so cold outside and overcasted we stayed indoors out of the wind. The boys played games on the Xbox and my parent and I talked and took a few 40 winks….
When I saw the sky was clearing and the sun came out I could not stay indoors anymore. I had to go see if I could spot my first Whale for the week. We took a drive along the coast but unfortunately we did not spot a Whale but the boys spotted the girls in Onrus and Vermont. I keep forgetting they are not 5 an 4 anymore they are 12 and 11 and the hormones are starting to work overtime…
Tomorrow if the weather plays along we want to go and see what is happening at the Whale festival.
Today’s Photo of the day was taken at the Jan Rabie Tidal Pool in Vermont.
This will be the first time that I will join in on Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post challenge.
Mornings are the most peaceful time of the day. What better way than to be woken up by the singing of birds at your window with dawn breaking…
Even when it is cold and raining there is nothing more beautiful than the different colours in the sky as dawn breaks. I took the following photo’s Easter Weekend one morning while Hubby, my friend and my youngest went for a jog. Haha jogging not for me. I’ll rather walk and exercise my finger on the shutter button.
Dawn BreakingSandbaai boardwalkJogging not my kind of exercise…
The following photo’s I took one morning at Alpine Heath in the Drakensberg during our holiday there in July 2012. What a lovely sight it was. I was clicking away did not want to miss a second of the lovely dawn breaking….
This one I took when I woke up through our bedroom window.Suns first rays against the mountainsHurried downstairs to get this lovely view a few meters away from our chaletSunrise through the reeds.Another one through the reedsGood Morning world
Alpine Heath, Drakensberg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loayalty to the achievement of your values.” Ayn Rand
Country View, Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” Gandhi
On Route to Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
“Don’t settle for second best, ever. A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.” Tony Clark
Sandbaai, Hermanus, East Coast, Western Cape, South Africa
“Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you’re having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.” Ian K Smith
Addo National Elephant Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa
“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” Alan Watts
Country View, Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” Vincent Van Gogh
Lake Arthur, Eastern Cape, South Africa
“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
On Route to Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape, South Africa
“Life, as we live it, is not a setup of prescheduled events that have no relationship to one another. Life is an unfolding in which we can participate.” Ann Wilson Schaef
Sandbaai, East Coast, Western Cape, South Africa
“Never mistake activity for achievement.” John Wooden
On Route to Richmond, Karoo, South Africa
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome.” William James
Avocca River Cabins, Kirkwood, Eastern Cape, South Africa
” I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye. But somehow, as day always follows the night, most of our troubles work out all right.” Edgar Guest
Kleinmond, East Coast, Western Cape, South Africa
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” Abraham Lincoln
Avocca River Cabins, Kirkwood, Eastern Cape, South Africa
“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” President Obama
uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
“Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” Leo Buscaglia
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