Frogging is Fun - Chrissiesmeer Frog Night 2011

On Saturday 4th December Chrissiesmeer hosted its annual Frog Night. This was the 4th one I've been to and each one just gets better and better. The night is great fun and starts off with a brief lecture about frogs and what species you will be likely to find when heading into the pans in Chrissiesmeer, as well as the various calls unique to each frog that can be found in the area. Then its off to the pans, with wellies, water shoes or plastic bags over your takkies to catch the frogs. There are prizes available for the first frog found, the family with the most frogs and most species found. Everyone is into the grass and water around the pan looking and listening to catch their frogs and there is great excitement with each find. The frogs are popped into plastic bags and taken back to the main hall for identification and the prizes giving and then returned to the pan from which they were collected. The evening is rounded off with a hearty warm meal and homemade breads and preserves. I hope that the glimpse below with show you how much fun was had by everyone who was there.

 See you at Frog Night 2012!

Florence Guest House - Wedding Venue

I just had to blog about this beautiful new wedding venue which is being built at the Florence Guest Farm in Chrissiesmeer, Mpumalanga. Ane and Nico have been building their new venture into Wedding eventing and I’m sure from these in construction images you will see that this is going to be an amazing venue. I can’t wait to see the completed building and hope that I may be lucky enough to get to shoot a wedding at Florence guest house in 2012.