by Dominic Chadbon | Oct 10, 2019 | Nature |
I realised I started this blog all wrong. It began as a lament to the loss of nature – the rainforests are burning, the coral reefs are dying – but I should, in fact, be marvelling at the robustness of the natural world. Nature is everywhere if you know where to look,...
by Dominic Chadbon | Aug 23, 2019 | Fynbos |
And suddenly there it was. Like discovering a grove of wild woodland on London’s Oxford Street. A patch of Cape Flats Sand Fynbos just around the corner from my house. It survives on a boggy corner of my local common – too wet for the tractor to mow – and I sploshed...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jul 24, 2019 | Fynbos |
I know I’m always boasting about the diversity of fynbos vegetation but even you will go ‘wow’ at this one. The Ericas are heathers and despite their dainty, shivery-twigged appearance, it is these shrubs that best illustrate the bio-insanity of fynbos. Heathers are...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jun 19, 2019 | Conservation |
Not many visitors to Cape Town go to Bellville. A splodge of light industry and housing north of the city, it is perhaps ‘Jersey-side’ to New Yorkers; to Londoners it is Croydon. But travel to the University of the Western Cape’s Bellville campus and something...
by Dominic Chadbon | May 3, 2019 | Table Mountain |
Here’s something Cape Town Tourism fails to mention in its marketing literature: the top of Table Mountain is covered in cloud for an average of 184 days a year. Multiply by two and you have a mountain that’s clouded over every other day. My source? The Mountain – An...
