by Dominic Chadbon | Apr 10, 2019 | People & Fynbos |
So who were the indigenous people of the Cape, watching in silence as the European sailing ships slipped into Table Bay? It’s a question that usually makes people frown, scratch their heads and say “hmm…” There were people here all right – tens of thousands of them...
by Dominic Chadbon | Mar 19, 2019 | Fynbos |
Interesting character, Proteus. Son of Neptune – Greek God of the sea – his speciality was shape-changing, morphing into any form he chose – a leopard, a tree, some water. It’s a neat trick and one that inspired Carl Linnaeus – father of taxonomy – to name a...
by Dominic Chadbon | Feb 14, 2019 | Fynbos |
Ever got home after doing the shopping and discovered – with a groan and the slap of your forehead – that you’ve forgotten to buy sugar? Or an intestinal worm purgative? Don’t worry, it happens to me too. These days you remedy the situation by trying to remember the...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jan 23, 2019 | Fire & Fynbos |
With all this fuss made about the wonders of fynbos vegetation, it does seem a bit drastic that it all gets burnt to cinders from time to time. But stand in a patch of flower-spangled fynbos anywhere in the mountains in the Western Cape and you are looking at a...
by Dominic Chadbon | Dec 18, 2018 | Fynbos |
I took a casual stroll through some fynbos the other day. It was a typical Cape Town morning – sunny, warm and breezy – and the air fizzed with the industrious hum of insects moving from flower to flower. Lizards – Cape skinks – scuttled under bushes as I walked, and...
