by Dominic Chadbon | Apr 20, 2018 | Table Mountain |
Cape Town’s autumn months of April and May are generally accepted as having the fewest flowers in bloom. This may be true in sheer numbers but with a fifth of the fynbos in flower at any time of year, it’s not like you’ll see nothing. And anyway, autumn is a...
by Dominic Chadbon | Mar 15, 2018 | Fynbos
Forget what you learnt at school: the science of Botany has been re-written – by none other than yours truly – and I present, after many years of diligent observation, Chadbon’s Three Immutable Laws of Fynbos. Law 1. Afrikaans has Better Names for Plants than English...
by Dominic Chadbon | Feb 13, 2018 | Cape Point |
Toxic tentacles! External stomachs! Bristly feet! And they’re … uhm … four centimetres long and live in little rock pools. But hey, the denizens of the not-so- deep are still pretty intimidating when seen close up. And there’s no better place to see these beasts than...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jan 19, 2018 | Table Mountain Hiking |
If you’d like to hike Table Mountain during your stay in Cape Town but are unsure about the best time to do so, then this may help. Locals joke that Cape Town experiences all four seasons in one day – and possibly before lunch – but there are well-defined...
by Dominic Chadbon | Dec 12, 2017 | Bird Watching |
When visiting an urban nature reserve just 30 minutes from the centre of Cape Town, you’d certainly expect to see frogs and birds and beetles but perhaps not hippopotamus, antelope and tortoise. Rondevlei Nature Reserve doesn’t even cover three square kilometres but...
