Gallery:

Scorpion with young - not seen often.

Fancy finding an old gas cylinder....cost R3.98 with 10% VAT.

Olifants River from the Grietjie Nature Reserve.

Aloe (Marlothii) silhouettes.

Photo control pre-marks for aerial photography  & mapping.

Mining in the Steelpoort region.

Baobab tree in the Burgersfort area - illegal mining activities.

Beautiful Leadwood Tree...Hoedspruit.

Snare for small game - removed!

Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill - interesting shadow on eye.

Snakes....part of the job.

Beautiful old ruins - Belfast region.

Snuff-box tree, Snuifkalbassie: Luvhuvhu region.

Local tavern...check spelling before advertising!

Farm beacon on ledge - Mapochsgronde (Roossenekal region).

Trigonometrical beacon - Lydenburg region.

GPS base station  - new mining area in the Steelpoort region.

New mining site - Steelpoort region.

Farm survey - Ohrigstad region.

Verification of water use - Eastern Free State.

Farm survey - Lydenburg / Burgersfort region.

Death of a Marlothii Aloe...

Farm survey - Kwena Dam region.

Investigating mining encroachments - Steelpoort region.

Chrome mine boundary survey - Steelpoort region.

Early morning mist - Long Tom Pass.

Static GPS survey of primary beacons in Lesotho - 1991.

Static GPS control survey - high water mark determination: Sodwana- to Kosi Bay / Mozambique border.

Lesotho Highlands Water Project - survey verification from the Free State.

Kwazulu-Natal tribal boundary survey - before departing for the Sentinel.

Prof. Keith Greggor and Paul Davies (chopper pilot)  relaxing during a survey in KZN.

Fish traps at Kosi Bay.

Survey office in Schweizer-Reneke: 1987.

Land surveyor at work.

Early morning pearls...

Traditional gate and fence...prior to electric fencing!

All creatures great and small...

Relaxing after a challenging farm survey - Lydenburg.

Along a forestry back road - on the way to Belfast.

GPS base station at Mariepskop - Nature Reserve survey.

Snare for large animals - almost caught a land surveyor!  Snare removed...

Nothing beats working in areas like this.

Mariepskop - Blydepoort Nature Reserve survey.

Trigonometrical beacon  - Lydenburg region.

River crossing - Blydepoort Nature Reserve survey.

Incline construction survey.

Dog hanging from Shepherd's Tree - another weird find during a survey.

Elephant creating a stir!

It is not the size of the beast, but the size of the exhaust that determines the dump proportion!

Early morning surprise - elephant tracks at the waterhole.

Death by lion - end of my faithful trail camera!

Farm survey in the Ohrigstad region - new citrus farms.

Large Wild Fig.

The original Wild Fig tree of the farm VYGENHOEK - too old to comprehend.

Setting out at the Leadwood Big Game Estate - Hoedspruit region.

Danger...moving machinery or hungry crocodiles?

Forestry or military?

Sign on a citrus farm

Beware - Warthog.

Beware - coffin going down...

Haw!

Big obstacle...

The ever present Kudu!

Haibo - Mamba!