by Dominic Chadbon | Nov 21, 2017 | Fynbos |
What is it with flowers? Why are they are red or blue or yellow or pink or a combination thereof? Some smell like honey or fruit salad while others stink bad enough to make you wretch – what’s all that about? And why are some flowers sticky, or hidden away from sight...
by Dominic Chadbon | Oct 15, 2017 | Bird Watching |
Wait! I’m not kidding: drive around Cape Town’s biggest water treatment plant and you’ll think you’re on the shores of an East African Rift Valley lake. Great lines of pink honking flamingos, patrolling birds of prey and giant pelicans flying in to land like bombers...
by Dominic Chadbon | Sep 28, 2017 | Fynbos |
Apart from “Are we nearly there yet”, the most common question I am asked while hiking in these Cape mountains is: “What actually is fynbos?” It’s a good question. Is it a bush? Or lots of them? And why does such apparently insignificant-looking vegetation elicit such...
by Dominic Chadbon | Aug 28, 2017 | Conservation |
It’s been burnt by countless fires, over-grazed by generations of livestock, commandeered as a military camp and used as a cricket pitch. Urban development has nibbled away at its edges, reducing it to 40 hectares (100 acres) in size while alien grasses continue their...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jul 12, 2017 | Table Mountain |
Late July and Table Mountain sits steaming in mid-winter cloud. Grey, grumpy Atlantic weather is dumping rain on Cape Town and snow on the higher mountains of the interior. Cold, wet and cloudy, this time in the southern hemisphere is labelled ‘winter’ but if anything...
