by Dominic Chadbon | Aug 22, 2024 | Nature |
Now that was a wet month. My rain gauge recorded nearly 70% of 2022’s total precipitation in July 2024. Reservoirs in the Western Cape (nearly dry in 2017) are now overflowing, if not bursting their dam walls, and every time it rains in my neighbourhood, floodwater...
by Dominic Chadbon | Sep 25, 2023 | Cape Point |
A blue moon isn’t really blue; it’s when two full moons occur in the same month. It’s a rare calendar event – hence “once in a blue moon” – but a more unusual lunar phenomenon also exists. If a full blue moon is its closest point to the earth during its...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jul 28, 2023 | Cape Point |
Oh, so you thought a trip to Cape Point meant cute penguins and selfies while wandering willy-nilly through the fynbos? Beware. As modest as the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve appears, it is home to animals the size of a rhino, others with fangs longer than those of...
by Dominic Chadbon | Mar 8, 2023 | Fynbos |
It begins with the outliers. Small, sneaky, they hide behind bigger bushes or wedge themselves onto cliff-faces, surveying the landscape with the rapacious eye of a thin-ribbed colonialist. As your descent from the high ground continues, larger, long-limbed gangs of...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jan 20, 2023 | Fynbos |
“Wait a minute,” I hear savvy locals say. “The hidden gems of Elands’ Pass? Isn’t that where the N2 highway runs over those mountains near Cape Town? Do you mean Sir Lowry’s Pass? One of the busiest bits of road in the province?” Yes I do. It may be called Sir Lowry’s...
