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Gerhard and I moved our household to Langebaan
in February 2007. We've slowly been getting to know the area and
find it absolutely fabulous. We're currently living in a vacation
home which Gerhard bought in 2003. It wasn't our original plan,
but we won't be able to buy a small farm or smallholding until we make a
lot more money! So in the meantime, we'll just have to make due
and enjoy living 300m from the beach...
Though I don't have any pictures of our house or beach, I do have some
photos I took near our development. There are some old quarries
near our house, and I take the dogs up there to let them run freely.
There are tons of birds living in the old quarries, and the most
exciting of them is the pair of black eagles that live there. I
was hoping to see them fledge a chick last year, but a landslide
demolished their nest and broke the egg before it hatched. I was
heartbroken when that happened, but I hope they will lay eggs in their
new nest this year. (Click the left and right arrows to see all
the photos.)
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This adult black eagle was incubating an egg on her nest.
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Unfortunately, a landslide demolished the nest one day.
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The egg never hatched.
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These are spotted eagle owl chicks.
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They must have been less than two weeks old at this stage.
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One of the adults was always on the nest or very close by.
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