GAPS2 Africa II 2008 - experience a trip of a life-time!

Just added some possible birding sites around Cape Town to the WIKI: click also to be found there is SA Birding web site which Paul may be interested in. Huge birding opportunities. Am hoping to fit in 2-3 hours lunch stopover at the West Coast NP en route from CT to Springbok. We need to stop somewhere as a long/dull drive otherwise and it'll be an ideal time to visit there.

Need to start doing some reading again.

This weekend I went to the yearly holliday fair in Copenhagen. Got about 15 cm brochures only about Africa. More and more agents are now sending people to Namibia and & Botswana. Last year at the same fair I only found one agent doing that.


btw I thought I wanted to update the logo on the wiki page with a real photo from africa instead of the zoo photo

condyk wrote in post #4801412
Just added some possible birding sites around Cape Town to the WIKI: click

Looks gooood - the program in CT will be packed ...

tommykjensen wrote in post #4801531
More and more agents are now sending people to Namibia and & Botswana. Last year at the same fair I only found one agent doing that.


btw I thought I wanted to update the logo on the wiki page with a real photo from africa instead of the zoo photo

Well we were the true pioneers mate

Olli wrote in post #4801587
Looks gooood - the program in CT will be packed ...

With two vehicles we should be covered and we will ensure we get decent variety.

condyk wrote in post #4801734
Well we were the true pioneers mate

Hehe the brochures actually mentions that Namibia & Botswana is usually never the first choice for first time africa explorers.

tommykjensen wrote in post #4801744
Namibia & Botswana is usually never the first choice for first time africa explorers.

I'm even more exited now!

Some good birding links related to South Africa: click

Have added them to the WIKI

Oh lordy!

Thanks Dave

Try and get photographs of the blue crane. It's our national bird

mellowd wrote in post #4870206
Try and get photographs of the blue crane. It's our national bird

Is there just the one

mellowd wrote in post #4870206
Try and get photographs of the blue crane. It's our national bird

We saw a pair at the Addo (in 2005 ~ crumbs must go abck again sometime soonish) but sadly I was driving and it was at a point when I just could not stop - very gracefull looking birds as I recall with very long primary feathers that at rest appeared to be the tail feathers ~ does that make sense of what I saw???

Box Brownie wrote in post #4870929
We saw a pair at the Addo (in 2005 ~ crumbs must go abck again sometime soonish) but sadly I was driving and it was at a point when I just could not stop - very gracefull looking birds as I recall with very long primary feathers that at rest appeared to be the tail feathers ~ does that make sense of what I saw???

Defiantely They are very nice birds to look at and are quite large as well!

condyk wrote in post #4870848
Is there just the one

Thanks, just spat my coffee all over my keyboard!

paulhillion wrote in post #4875459
Thanks, just spat my coffee all over my keyboard!

Coffee, I would thought you could have nipped down to the bar for a pint but I suppose you were at the 'office'

Richtersveld shots click

Northern Cape/Kgalagadi/Augrabi​es click

To give a flavour.