Off Beat Safaris

01/12/2016

Some more pointillistic ones that I did.

01/12/2016

Thanks to all who supported the exhibition and also for all the wonderful comments. x 5 sold on the opening night. They will be on display for a while longer at iNyoka gallery.

22/11/2016

22/11/2016

Our latest exhibition @ iNyoka gallery on Friday 26 November 6.30 pm . LIFE IN THE LOWVELD.
I am lucky enough to be the "featured artist " and have x 15 art pieces on show. 13 of them in pointism....needless to say I am now quite dottied out!

24/08/2016

16 hours of dots - I was watching the Olympics in between.

28/07/2016

Today 20 years ago I came to live on the farm - Off Beat! What good years they have been, I am so lucky and totally addicted to this bush.

09/05/2016

All done in camp now. Old students area now Termite mound family unit and room no 1 Twinspot, now enclosed with private kitchenette and braai area. Do check out Off Beat's new webpage.

30/03/2016

We have been upgrading the camp for the last two months, now nearly completed.

04/01/2016

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! I went to Bruce and Judy @ nDzuti Klaserie Nature reserve for a few days......tons of elephant at the waterhole seen from the veranda of the lodge, red crested korhaans flying up high doing their mating displays, x3 lionesses and 5 cubs feeding on a buffalo, African wildcat, hippos, x3 rhino sightings, lone territorial wildebeest bulls,raptors,herds of impala with new babies, calling fish eagles, a newly born steenbok...still wet and general game. Loads of champagne, laughs and good fun. AND I left my camera at home......no pics

15/11/2015

YAY our first rains...10mm last night. YIPPPEEEEE. Hope more to come soonest.

21/09/2015

Back for my European trip.It was lovely but no place like South Africa and home.

11/08/2015

From the start and now completed.

01/06/2015

Ingrid is in the cottage and the lapa/lounge is complete. Busy with the braai and then still the pool.

11/05/2015

Thank you all for all the love and good memories.I am sure he is at peace.

10/05/2015

I had Alpha put down yesterday.He could not walk anymore....
R.I.P. my good, feisty, gentle, kind boy - and I try to remember just the good times. His spirit lives on.

23/04/2015

We have been renovating the cottage....what a job but so satisfying....not that I could do much else. ingrid is moving in the 1st of May. Lapa just about done now.

20/03/2015

Ellie trashed my swimming pool area the night before last,all the pots and plants scattered about camp. Yay chopper chased him out yesterday I hope he now stays out!!

18/03/2015

This damned elephant is now driving me mad...broke into the camp last night..Rhaldie and I caught him there and chased him out. He broke through the fence to the old students kitchen, broke the aloes, some random branches, the Schotia ( Boerebean) in camp and left his calling card. We are planning to get him off today. Kirsty and kids are coming today and we cannot have him so close to the buildings!!!!

28/02/2015

Lena is here for a visit. Her boyfriend and mum also came for a while. She rode Felucca and just loved it! Felucca was such a good girl and that after 3 years of not being ridden.

28/02/2015

Zazzy on her 2nd birthday.

24/01/2015

Hornbills "shadow boxing" on all the house windows and car mirrors. From early morning to sunset.....driving me crazy.

19/01/2015

The same elephant ( I think) has broken the fence into Off Beat yet again! He seems to be here today and we are a little worried as he revved a car in Balule yesterday. Lifted the front section of the bakkie and dropped it back down onto the road then moved off. I don't think I can out drive an angry elli with the landy on these roads!?! Loads of Marulas in his pooh.

02/01/2015

An elephant broke the gate and came onto Off Beat last night. I was not here but the staff say the dogs went wild and this morning they followed his spoor I saw his tracks this afternoon...he played around and poohed in the riverbed, then pushed a few trees over, had a drink at the waterhole, dug a hole, ate some roots and then broke the fence into Balule and was gone. They took all day to fix the fence!!!!

20/12/2014

I'm going to Rhaldie and Ellery in Moz tomorrow. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all. may 2015 be a good one!

16/12/2014

How wonderful is this rain!! The horses went mad this morning.

09/12/2014

O yes and we were so tired that evening..man I was in bed @ 8. We signed it MILCO!!!! Millie and Colleen.

09/12/2014

And my good deed for December....I organized the taking off of the old Villa Rosa sign (3.7m x 2.6m) Soyaphi and I grindered, sanded and hand sanded. We then with Rodney Wall's help painted layers of anti rust and x2 white layers. The next day I painted the snake and lettering. Colleen Wall helped me. Yesterday it was up again. Now we should catch visitors attention!

08/12/2014

This is what Anne and I then did to the red wall at the gallery.

24/11/2014

I went to JHB to see the theater production of Warhorse - WOW.

20/11/2014

Rhaldie and the kids were here for the weekend, they left yesterday, was so lekker.