{"id":1910,"date":"2014-12-28T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T03:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2014-12-28T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T03:15:50","slug":"swellendam-worcester-ceres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/1910","title":{"rendered":"Swellendam, Worcester, Ceres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Knysna we headed for Swellendam and spent the evening at <a title=\"Wildebraam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildebraam.co.za\/index.php?p=52\" target=\"_blank\">Rose Cottage at Wildebraam Berry Estate <\/a>on the outskirts of town. This was very pleasant but not a specific birding spot so we just enjoyed hearing and watching the Guinea fowl while having a braai for dinner.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1916\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RoseCottage_DSF1792-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1916\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RoseCottage_DSF1792-web.jpg?resize=800%2C534&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rose Cottage - Wildebraam Berry Estate, Swellendam\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RoseCottage_DSF1792-web.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RoseCottage_DSF1792-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Cottage &#8211; Wildebraam Berry Estate, Swellendam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1917\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SwellendamShedWindow_DSF1807-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1917\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SwellendamShedWindow_DSF1807-web.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Orchard shed window - Wildebraam Berry Estate\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SwellendamShedWindow_DSF1807-web.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SwellendamShedWindow_DSF1807-web.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SwellendamShedWindow_DSF1807-web.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orchard shed window &#8211; Wildebraam Berry Estate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next day we headed for Ceres via Worcester where we made a stop at the <a title=\"Karoo Gardens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sanbi.org\/gardens\/karoo-desert\" target=\"_blank\">Karoo Desert\u00a0Botanical Gardens<\/a> which is always a favourite spot for birding. Midday wasn&#8217;t ideal for photographing or birding but we saw a few birds and managed a reasonable photo of a quiver tree before having lunch at the new restaurant complex in the gardens.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1915\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/QuiverTreeWorcester_DSF1839-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1915\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/QuiverTreeWorcester_DSF1839-web.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Quiver tree- Karoo Desert Botanical Gardens, Worcester\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/QuiverTreeWorcester_DSF1839-web.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/QuiverTreeWorcester_DSF1839-web.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/QuiverTreeWorcester_DSF1839-web.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quiver tree- Karoo Desert Botanical Gardens, Worcester<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our booked accommodation for the night was Klipspringer Cottage at <a title=\"Fairfield Mountain Cottages\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairfieldcottages.co.za\/accommodation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Fairfield Mountain Cottages in Ceres<\/a>\u00a0and we must confess to some anxiety about this booking as we had been unable to contact them on the supplied phone number for directions and there were no directions on their website. A visit to their Facebook page had a location in the middle of the Karoo more than a\u00a0hundred\u00a0miles from Ceres and was starting to ring alarm bells about a\u00a0scam website. It was with some relief that on dropping into the Information Centre at Ceres there were clear directions and we shortly found our destination after a brief stop at the local Spar for braai supplies. It was great to see some local specialties like &#8220;Kalahari Kreef&#8221; and &#8220;Pofadder&#8221; in the meat section.<\/p>\n<p>The small pool was a great escape from the heat of the day and once the sun had dropped a little, Edin and I took a walk up the mountain looking for pictures before making the daily braai fire. Morning dawned a little cooler and with the daily noise of workers and tractors heading into the orchards to pick apples. Despite the name we didn&#8217;t think that there was much chance of actually seeing a Klipspringer so it was with some surprise that I noticed Edin feverishly mounting a lens on her camera the next morning and telling me that there were Klipspringers\u00a0in the grass. A pair moving slowly up the mountain after presumably spending the early morning feeding down on the flats passed within 20 meters of us. They posed co-operatively on a rock outcrop just next to the cottage before heading further up and disappearing amongst the boulders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1913\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KlipspringerCottage_D3S1931-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1913\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KlipspringerCottage_D3S1931-web.jpg?resize=800%2C534&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Klipspringer Cottage\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KlipspringerCottage_D3S1931-web.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KlipspringerCottage_D3S1931-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klipspringer Cottage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1912\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/AppleOrchardWorkers-Ceres-_D3S1952-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1912\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/AppleOrchardWorkers-Ceres-_D3S1952-web.jpg?resize=800%2C534&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Apple orchard worker heading off to start a day picking\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/AppleOrchardWorkers-Ceres-_D3S1952-web.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/AppleOrchardWorkers-Ceres-_D3S1952-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple orchard workers heading off to start a day picking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1914\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Klipspringers_D806860-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1914\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Klipspringers_D806860-web.jpg?resize=800%2C534&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Klipspringer pair photographed from the lawn of the cottage\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Klipspringers_D806860-web.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Klipspringers_D806860-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klipspringer pair photographed from the lawn of the cottage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Knysna we headed for Swellendam and spent the evening at Rose Cottage at Wildebraam Berry Estate on the outskirts of town. This was very pleasant but not a specific birding spot so we just enjoyed hearing and watching the Guinea fowl while having a braai for dinner. &nbsp; Next day we headed for Ceres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscape","category-mammals","category-travel","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Swellendam, Worcester, Ceres - 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