South Africa 2015 - Cape Peninsula |
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Simon's Town - view from the hotel room |
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Simon's Town |
South African navy, Simon's Town |
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Diving boat going to Seal Island and the Great White Sharks, Simon's Town |
At Cape of Good Hope |
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Seal Island, False Bay |
Seal pups, are there any great whites here today? |
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Cape Fur Seals, Seal Island, False Bay |
Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) |
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Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis), False Bay |
Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus), Simon's Town wharf quay |
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Subantarctic Skua (Catharacta antarctica) |
Subantarctic Skua |
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Cape Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capensis) |
Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus), Simon's Town |
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Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) |
Cape Gull (Larus dominicanus vetula) |
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Hartlaub's Gull (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii) |
Red-Winged Starling (Onychognathus morio) |
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African (Jackass) Penguin (Spheniscus demersus), Boulders Beach, Simon's Town |
African Penguins |
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African Penguin |
Nice view. From the penguin colony |
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Cape Bunting (Emberiza capensis) |
Cape Wagtail (Motacilla capensis) |
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Cape Point viewed from Cape of Good Hope |
Cape of Good Hope cliffs |
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Rock Hyrax, locally called Dassie (Procavia capensis subsp. capensis) at Cape Point |
Black Girdled Lizard (Cordylus niger) |
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Cape Point |
Cape Point Lighthouse |
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Cape Point Baboons (Papio anubis) |
Cape Point - The Flying Dutchman |
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Fynbos vegetation. Few plants were flowering when I visited in August (late winter), but I can imagine the colors in spring |
Cape of Good Hope fynbos vegetation. Some more fynbos photos can be seen here |
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South African Ostrich (Struthio camelus australis) in the fynbos vegetation. Are the African ostriches different species? According to new evidence, there are three living subspecies of the Common Ostrich. Of which the South African is one |
Hadeda Ibis (Bostrychia hagedas |
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Southern Double-Collared Sunbird (Cinnyris chalybeus) |
Southern Double-Collared Sunbird |
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Karoo Prinia (Prinia maculosa) |
Cape White-Eye (Zosterops virens) |
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