Mike S.
Last August I made a bucket list trip to South Africa to see wildflowers, including succulents plus birds too. I’ll share a small sample of the thousands of pictures I took in 3 or 4 installments.
I flew to Capetown (a 15 hour direct flight on Delta from Atlanta to Capetown. We travelled up the west (Atlantic) coast and a little bit inland all the way to the Namibian border at the Orange River. This is mostly a winter-rainfall area, although the rains can be spotty or almost nonexistant as you get further north.
The goals for this 20 day-long trip were :
1) To see and photograph the late winter “superbloom” of wildflowers
2: To see and photograph as many different succulent plants as possible in the drier parts of Namaqualand and the Richtersveld. My special interests include growing “living stones”, e.g. Lithops and Conophytum species and relatives in my greenhouse, so seeing these wild was a major goal!
3: To see and photograph all the birds!
4: To see and photograph all the amazing scenery on this first trip of mine to Africa!
Our small group of three travellers we lucky to have a local guide from (and owner of ) Pillansii Tours which specializes in botanical tours in South Africa. I also did birding (as I always do!) and mostly did the identifying on my own. Although our guide was very good at spotting larger birds.
This first installment is a selection from the “Superbloom” areas . Places that had received rainfall this winter (June and July there in the Southern Hemishpere). These areas were scattered, but our guide had gotten reports and scouted so knew where to take us,

Vast swaths of wild flowers in bloom, mainly annuals in the Aster/daisy family. Some of the genus names will be familiar as spring garden center flowers to gardeners all around the world. Including, Gazania, Arctotis, and Dimorphotheca.
Every one else can think of them as colorful daisylike flower that you can pick up for a few bucks a pot every spring to liven up your garden.