I always get great enjoyment of showing off South Africa to visitors and in particular the Cape and as I am now in semi-retirement I have spent the last four years taking family and overseas friends around the Cape and the winelands. I then decided to do the exams to become a registered tour guide in all nine provinces which I have done. I have also successfully completed an online course “En Route Through Swaziland’ conducted by MGT Training Solutions

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Over the past four years I have done numerous tours:-

• Historical Cape Town City Bowl;

• The Cape Peninsular;

•  Cape Wine Lands;

• Historical Stellenbosch;

•  Garden Route;

•  Kruger National Park;

•  Addo Elephant Park;

• de Hoop Nature Reserve;

•  Panorama Route;

• The Natal Battlefields;

• The Anglo / Zulu Battlefields of Insandalawana and Rorke’s Drift

•  Maitjiesfontein.

•  I have led groups of mining students on tours of mines in South Africa and to the diamond mines of Botswana;

• Flower tours up the West Coast to Springbok, Nieuwoudville, the Tankwa Karroo;

•  I have designed and led my own tours into the West Coast National Park and around the West Coast flower towns of Darling and Yzterfontein;

• I have conducted a number of shoreex for a tour company and in my personal capacity.

 

I have also done a 24 day tour for 21 members of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland through South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Botswana. I have also done tours from Cape Town, through Namibia, Botswana to Victoria Falls

I have had tourists by themselves and groups of 47. The longest tour I have done has been over three weeks.

My particular interests are South African history, wine and food, and the flora and fauna of South Africa, in particular bird watching.