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12th of September 2010

And once again it took almost a month until the next item appaered on this page.

First of all, the recovery of the photos which I so optimistically anounced in my last entry didn't work. Don't ask me why, I tried it again and again and agian, but the pictures always disappear. So for the time being we will have to do without them.

"Therefore, I attempt today to load another picture from one of our trips that we recently did with a houseboat on the Vaal river, south of Johannesburg. Attention: ART ALARM! It is a collage! Huiuiui. Doesn't matter.

We did the trip together with our neighbors (who rented their own boat, because those boats are not the Queen Mary). It was a loads of fun, so much fun actually, that for us this trip was a repeat of exactly the same trip that we did last year."

15th of August 2010

I obviously ran out of creative steam before anybody could say "Bob is my uncle." and didn't publish anything for more than half a year. Quite impressive. And if now anybody thought I would re-open shop with a big bang and a shower of new material - NOPE. Nothing of that sort. I only found the other day that some photos out of my Japan section went missing and I built them back into this page.

Obviously life carried on throughout this period and there would be enough to write about and to document with some photos, but not today. In the hope, but without a promise, that I will write here sooner again I will go now to bed. It's already after 9 pm, hui. Burning the candle on both ends again.

31st of January 2010

Once again a longer break in activity, but with work and visitors, it is not always easy to find time. Today I started a new section of this web page.

Attention: Yawner Alarm!!

Family Matters. But as one of the major purposes of this page is to keep family and friends at least loosely informed about our lifes, it seems to make sense to put something like this up. And be warned, even if you have the fortune to be linked to us by blood, if we know you, it may happen that you will find yourself on that page too.

11th of January 2010

Next part of our holiday. This time it is something about Durban where we used our 1 day in town NOT to become experts of the town, but to slack. Well, we went with the boy to Ushaka, a water fun park and that was it. Why not.

4th of January 2010

First Monday in a new year and I still made it. I post something on the internet.

Today is the second installment of photos from our holiday in South Africa at the beginning of December. This time these are from the town of Graaff-Reinet and the surrounding Cambedoo National Park.

28th of December 2009

We recently returned from our summer holiday which took us to an ocean, into a desert, a city and the mountains. Here is the start of what we did and what we have to say about it.

I also posted some pictures of a town called Nieu-Bethesda, which was part of our holiday.

21st of December 2009

Maybe a bit late to help anybody, but I posted a travel tip for the holidays coming ahead.

30th of November 2009

No photos today, but some more on (social) life here SA. Could be worse to be honest, that part of our life actually worked out quite well. But then again, we have a child going to school, which always helps to meet other parents. Plus we were really lucky with our neighbors, who happen to be German (can happen to everybody), he works for the direct competitor of the company I work for, he used to work for the company I worked for in Germany and I took over his job after he left that company back in 2000. First time we ever met was here in SA, when we became neighbors although we have a common friend back in Germany.

So, I guess we have a contender for the bizarre story of the week.

23rd of November 2009

OK, something new. I don't really have the patience at the moment to do careful photo editing anymore. I already spend enough time in front of the computer during the day. I go now more for quantity rather than quality. I found some nifty little programs on the internet, that enhance the photos automatically, mostly to a fairly reasonable standard. That is what I intend to use a lot now and then put the photos here. Better than all the art photos which I have the best intentions for but never do.

If I do some serious editing for photos which I really like I will probably put them in a still to set-up Photography section.

The photos of today cover an area called Blyde River Canyon, a great B&B named Otter's Den and some photos of my ballooning tour. They were all taken during our winter holiday to do our safari near Kruger National Park. See last week's entry.

16th of November 2009

Added some photos from our safari that we did in September in Sabi Sands, an area next to Kruger NP. It is the same as Kruger at the end of the day, same animals and same scenery, but they take children under 6 on game drives, in Kruger they don't. Obviously that was a major difference for us.

We did it for three days, which totaled up to 18 hour of game drives, which is fun while it lasts, but it is also enough for a while. It starts to feel like church or temple hopping for a few days in other areas of the world.

Animals in that area are so used in people watching them from the open jeaps that they often don't react to them anymore. It is good for watching them, but it takes also the wildness away from them. A certain zoo feeling can't be denied. But then again, if they were all shy, one would spend the whole time trying to chase animal behinds and won't get to see anything. So the trade off is OK. And at least one elephant cow did a mock charge at us.

4th of October 2009

I thought I start somewhere. For a long time I haven't done anything on the web to maintain the Colorful Fish in a way for what it was originally intended, tell people that know me in far away places how life, or at least my own personal version of it, is where ever I chose to live for a while.

On South Africa there is pretty much nothing so I raided again the blog that I maintained for a while to bring the  content here. Very sparse, but better than nothing.

I also wrote about a trip that we did this weekend to the Drakensberg mountains, one of our favorite playgrounds down here.

27th of September 2009

Still in recycling mode. Added a few days ago my old content about Japan, the original reason why started to have a web page. So it seemed to be fitting to put that on again. Back to the roots, so to speak.

9th of July 2009

As to be expected. I recycled some photos from a holiday on Lanzerote in 2007, which were already published in the past on the blog. This is still part of the excercise to get used to the software that I use for this web page.

7th of July 2009

This better becomes a new start. It has been a long time since anything happened on www.colorful-fish.com. Got fed up with editing the site manually by myself, which took too much time and was bloody boring.

Then I had a blog,which was for free and came with a pre-defined look. One could alter it to a certain extend, which I did. But then they changed something in the software and all my "special look" was lost again.  Got fed up with that, too. Look here. 

And now I am back to my old, real web address, the one I am actually paying for. And if this expense was not enough for a project that never took flight, I threw some more money into the thing in form of the software that I am using to write all this. It is called EZgenerator, relying on templates as well, which are fairly customizable, though. The software though does all the maintining of links and shifting of pages for you, so adding contents etc. is reasonably easy.

Don't ask me when I am supposed to find time to actually create some decent contents, because obviously that the software can't do. Since we moved to South Africa my life is more than busy and when I have time off I don't really feel like sitting in front of the computer for long. Initially I will just bring back some of the old contents for the most part I think. They say recycling is good for the environment.

We will have to see if anything comes out of all this good intentions. Hopefully now that I don't have to think much about the technical side of things I will actually take a liking to all this again.