Category: Family

Pregnancy Time-lapse #2

Pregnancy Time-lapse #2

Three years later and I found myself repeating history, creating a stop motion and time lapse video of my wife’s pregnancy and the birth of our second daughter Katie. Amazingly I seemed to learn very little from my previous attempt and found myself facing the same problems including lighting, flicker, and image alignment. And despite have …

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Hilltop Camp – Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park

Hilltop Camp – Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park

Still one of our favourite game reserves, we once again decided to spend part of our Christmas break at either Hluhluwe or iMfolozi. Many of you will have read my multitude of blog entries on this venue (most of which take the form of trip reports) so I’ve decided to structure this one slightly differently, more in line …

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Nitida Wines, Durbanville

Nitida Wines, Durbanville

During a recent trip to Cape Town we visited Nitida wine farm, Durbanville, for a quiet lunch with some friends and family. During the build up to our Cape visit we’d suggested that one of the activities we’d like to do was a lunch at a wine farm. Cassia was kind enough to put in the …

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Villa Spa Camping

Villa Spa Camping

Some may say we’ve gotten a little soft since the departure of Nick and Tazz? But rather than admit that I’m going to blame our recent camping trip to Villa Spa on Sharon’s colleagues. Villa Spa is a 4 star campsite located at Illovo Beach, just outside of Amanzimtoti. There are several accommodation options ranging from chalets …

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Halloween At Mac Nicol’s

Halloween At Mac Nicol’s

As we headed to Mac Nicol’s for Halloween I realised that 2015 had fast become the year of Bazley. Being my third post on this campsite for the year I’m not going to go into too much detail about the venue itself. It’s classed as a 4 star caravan park and, although I don’t know what that …

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Ifafa Campsite

Ifafa Campsite

With a four day weekend on the cards Sharon and I started looking for new campsites to visit with Emma. Funnily enough we made our final decision based on Emma’s passport. Having not been able to enter Lesotho earlier in the year when it was snowing we thought it was high time we braved the queues and …

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A Weekend At Kamberg

A Weekend At Kamberg

With Sharon and I both being exceptionally busy at work, and leave is a gift from above. So when a long weekend crept up on us we made the last minute decision to head to the Kamberg Nature Reserve for a weekend in the mountains. Our first stop was at Piggly Wiggly, early on Saturday …

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