From a very young age our family have been visiting the Kruger National Park on an annual basis. This was the beginning of a life long love and passion for nature.
Only recently (2009) thought have we discovered the amazing world of birding, and have been hooked since.
The wise words "change is as good as a holiday" played a vital role as our annual Kruger trip got replaced with a trip to the town of St. Lucia.
For those not familiar with the area it boast an incredible amount of bird-life in the many diverse ecosystems, ranging from the ocean to mangroves, dune forests, savanna, woodlands, wetlands and mountains. While on this trip we visited the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve as well as the isiMangaliso Wetland Park. Still newbies to birding we could barely identify a handful of specimens without The Book!
From there we returned to the Free State and our home town of Bloemfontein. Our next outing was to Pretoria where we added not only a few more birds to our almost non-existing list, but also a wonderful comrade and member of the family.
It took many hours, pain, endurance and plenty of wonderful memories to reach the current day and date with yet a day to come where we have not loved our new hobby/passion in life. . .
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