South Africa live webcams

About webcams in South Africa

South Africa's webcams are different from most countries': the biggest group by far is wildlife. Private game reserves and national parks point cameras at waterholes and rivers so that visitors and armchair viewers can watch elephants, rhinos and lions come to drink. The densest coverage is in the north-east, around Kruger National Park and the private reserves of Mpumalanga, where several lodges operate around-the-clock waterhole cams. On the coast, the picture changes. Cameras along the Garden Route and the Western Cape show beaches, harbours and the open ocean, and a handful of surf-report cams help locals judge conditions before they paddle out. River and lake cameras are fewer but useful: the country's periodic droughts make water-level cameras a practical check for farmers and authorities, and several dams have live views. City and traffic coverage is thin. Johannesburg and Cape Town have a few arterial-road cams, and the road agency runs some mountain-pass cameras in the Western Cape, but urban monitoring is not as dense as in Europe. What South Africa lacks in city coverage it makes up for in scenery. The most-watched cams tend to be the ones showing a waterhole at sunrise or a beach on the Indian Ocean, and during the southern winter the safari cams are a popular escape for viewers in the northern hemisphere.