Cape Town

This parking lot provides a great vantage point for photographing the penguins as they make there way down to the water. As they prepare to enter the water you can capture great images of their antics. There are many penguins in the coastal scrub around the parking lot and one needs to check under your vehicle when you leave that there are no hiding birds there.

Boyes Dr scenic drive is one of Cape Towns little gems. Linking the suburb of Lakeside with the small suburb of Kalk Bay, this drive is elevated above the suburbs and runs along the lower slopes of the Muizenberg Mountains.

Chapmans Peak Drive is one of the best spots in Cape Town to photograph sunsets. There are spectacular views over Houtbay and Sentinel peak.

Kalk Bay is a lively working harbour and one of the best places to buy fresh fish straight off the boat. It’s also a great place to take photographs – it’s almost impossible to take a bad picture here!

Kirstenbosch was recently named one of the top botanical gardens in the world. It serves as a very important refuge to many of the Cape Peninsula's faunal species, especially birds. It is undoubtable one of the top destinations in Cape Town to visit and is a great location for photography.

Gordon's Bay drive is one of Cape Towns scenic wonders and is possibly only rivalled by Chapmans Peak drive. Skirting the base of the Hottentot's-Holland mountains, it traverses the north eastern corner of the False Bay coastline.

Myburgh's Ravine's is an easily accessible ravine (kloof) on Table Mountain, over-looking Hout Bay. The ravine is well known for its Red Disa's in full flower during the months of January through March. Cascading waterfalls, indigenous Afromontane forest and a wide selection of birds makes this a great location to capture some of Cape Town's wildlife. The path up the ravine is steep and quite loose in places, however the first Disa's are fairly low down so its not necessary to go all the way to the top.

Rondevlei Nature Reserve is one of the jewels of Cape Town. A birders paradise, it also has a resident population of Hippopotomus. The reserve has several well located bird hides on the waters edge. There are arlso several towers and platforms that provide a superb elevated view to photograph from or bird watch.

Pelagic birding is not just about trying to see a few new birds; it is a whole adventure which starts with climbing aboard a boat and heading into for us humans, an artificial environment way out to sea where land is no longer visible.

Baden-Powel drive is one of the many roads that runs along the spectacular False Bay coastline and links various parts of the Cape Town metropole to one another. The road which runs right next to the sandy beach front and crashing waves will often produce views of Cape Cormorants flying in their characteristic V-shaped skeins as well as endangered African Black Oystercatcher foraging amongst the kelp debris together with White-Fronted Plovers. Large huddles of Kelp Gulls that hunker down from the well known Cape doctor in the form of the South-Easter wind are also a regular sight.

The Two Oceans Aquarium must rank as one of Cape Towns top attractions. It is a world class aquarium and provides a way for non-underwater photographers to get some stunning "underwater" shots. With patience and practice you can master the technique of photographing at the aquarium.

The Zeekoevlei Estuary is a small estuary that enters False Bay along Baden Powell drive, adjacent to the Strandfontein Sewerage Works.

The small mouth of this estuary migrates rapidly up and down the beach and several attempts have been made to stabilise these migration paths with little success.

Thus, the nature of this destination changes from week to week and the conditions on any specific day can be very different.