by Dominic Chadbon | Aug 12, 2016 | Cape Winelands |
Lying in the folds of a twisting valley, Porcupine Hills is the sort of place that makes you feel that perhaps, after all, the wild world is not completely in retreat. Surrounded by the relentless wheat fields and orchards of the Overberg, this private nature reserve...
by Dominic Chadbon | Aug 12, 2016 | Cape Winelands |
Talk about the best of both worlds: in the Cape Winelands, you combine superb mountain hiking with the well-rounded delights of the country’s best wine estates. And it’s just over an hour’s drive from Cape Town. The famous vineyards of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek lie...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jul 29, 2016 | Conservation |
The seventeenth century Dutch settlers might have looked at you a bit oddly had you mentioned to them at the time that their future depended on fynbos. For them, fynbos was ‘fine bush’ – not a reference, perhaps, to the small needle-like leaves shared by so many...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jun 30, 2016 | Table Mountain |
It’s early June and winter is making herself comfortable in Cape Town. Gone are the warm sunny days of summer; it’s cold now, with bad-tempered Atlantic storms bringing heavy rain. Snow falls on the high ground and Table Mountain is often shrouded in dense grey cloud....
by Dominic Chadbon | May 16, 2016 | Cape Point |
As I stepped onto the beach at Olifantsbos in the Cape of Good Nature Reserve I realised that something was very… different. The tidal range in the Cape is usually modest, rarely dropping more than a metre and a bit. But today the ocean had retreated well over...
