I guess some people may have called this particular trip a disaster with several things going wrong almost daily. But in truth it was really just an adventure, which is exactly what every camping trip should be. Hotels confuse me with their air con and TVs. I don’t travel to sit in rooms and watch TV. I …
This year Christmas belonged to the Steele family, so after work on Monday Sharon picked me up and we headed for her parent’s home in Richards Bay. Our first evening was spent at a restaurant called Porky’s overlooking the small craft harbour. The scenery was fantastic and the yachts, as always, looked magical lit up by the …
Christmas is fast approaching and according to Sharon it’s not just the Christmas tree that needs to be put up this year. Enter the cot. The day began with a quick visit to my mom’s house where the cot was being stored (having traveled from Richards Bay). After loading it into the boot we quickly realised that …
Amazingly it had been 8 years since I last visited (and camped) at Midmar Dam in the Kzn Midlands. Yes, it’s not as scenic as the mountains and bass are not as fondly thought of as trout by most fly fisherman; but I’m not most fly fisherman! So when a long weekend popped up just …
Each passing week of Sharon’s pregnancy seems to fly by faster than the last. And the faster time passes by the faster Sharon’s belly seems to grow. In fact, during a recent weekend away with Nick and Tarryn, Nick actually though he could see Sharon’s belly swelling with each passing day. Now although that’s not …
With Friday being my birthday we decided to head to Imfolozi for a weekend in the bush. Why I didn’t take the Friday off I’m not sure? None the less, Sharon picked me up from the office at around 3:30pm and we began the journey to the gate. After fighting through the Friday afternoon traffic …
A big thank you to my mom who did our wedding plate for us, it must’ve been a colossal task and turned out fantastically. A big thank you also to everyone who attended and signed it.
Amazingly the Wild Bird Trust asked me to publish a gallery of my bird photography on their website. As such the weekend was spent choosing a handful of my birding photos and publishing them to a small gallery. Then an amazing thing happened, National Geographic saw my gallery and chose one of my photos for their top 25 …
After a rather interesting DFT demo by Marco Breschi, our club’s bass expert, I had a chat with him and we decided to head down to Inanda Dam on Sunday morning for a little bass fishing (on fly of course). With my newly tied strip leech in hand, Nick picked me up, we met Marco …
I can’t believe that we’re half way through Sharon’s pregnancy already! Each scan seems to arrive faster than the one before, and I’m pretty sure baby girl Prior will be here before we blink an eye. It’s been an amazing 4 weeks since the last scan. Using Tarryn’s Doppler we heard our little girls heartbeat …