Member of the Wildlife & Environment
Society of South Africa Western Cape Region
Picture Gallery
The picture gallery consists of
slide shows which are opened by
clicking on the titles below;
please be patient, some of the
pictures are quite large and may
take a while to download.
We would really appreciate your
pictures of Rietvlei, please
email them to us; we will of
course give you full credit for
all pictures used. If you have
interesting prints, we would
like to borrow them so that we
can scan them and place them on
the website.
A short description and a date
(approximate if it cannot be
accurate) with all pictures will
be sincerely appreciated.
Special Galleries:
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Early Rietvlei. Axel Adelbert sent us an interesting picture of Rietvlei taken
in 1982. We also include aerial photographs from the
late 1950's or early 1960's.
David Scholtz Collection. David Scholtz has sent us some more great
pictures; view them in his collection.
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Kirsten Frost Collection. Photographer Kirsten
Frost has kindly sent us some of his photographs for
the website. You can see more of Kirsten's pictures
on his website
www.kfrostimages.com
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Birds of Rietvlei. These are just a few of the
many species of birds that can be seen at Rietvlei.
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Animals of Rietvlei. Rietvlei has a number of interesting animals of the non-feathered variety; we are starting this gallery to show these.
General Galleries:
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Winter floods July 2008.
Good heavy rains in early
July raised the water levels in the vlei and river
higher than last year's floods.
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Winter floods July 2007.
Heavy rain in late July resulted in the
levels of the vlei rising higher than it had in many
years. PLUS - Aerial photos by Bruce Sutherland,
City of Cape Town.
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Winter 2007. The winter rains means that Rietvlei has once again filled up with water.
