Africam

Recently we came across a really cool website.  It's called Africam and it allows you to watch real time web cams that are placed on game preserves in Africa.  There are four cameras in different places and you can choose to watch one camera at a time or monitor all four.  Just this morning, I saw three giraffes, an elephant, and several small deer on the Tembe camera.

Africa is about 8 hours ahead of us, so about 10:00 a.m. our time it is beginning to turn to dusk in Africa.  Although we've observed more animals during daylight hours, the cameras do work at night and we have seen herds of elephants during nighttime hours.

 

Africam allows you to take snapshots of the animals you see and save them to your computer.  You can also view videos of animals that appeared on camera during hours you might have missed.  We have had the most luck seeing animals on the Tembe camera, but have noticed a few animals on all the cameras.  You can also sign up to be alerted when animals are on camera so that you don't have to monitor the site constantly. 

We have really enjoyed watching the animals on this site.  Hope you do too! 

www.africam.com