by Dominic Chadbon | Aug 19, 2015 | Cederberg |
Deep in the Cederberg Mountains the silence hangs like a blanket. It’s so quiet here that your ears tingle. But you are not alone. Leopard tracks line the paths you walk on, and your journey into the wild is watched by ravens and eagles. The scenery is breathtakingly...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jul 17, 2015 | Cape Point, Table Mountain |
Pushed for time in Cape Town? Keen to take advantage of good weather? You can do all three of Cape Town’s best natural attractions –Table Mountain, Cape Point and Boulders Beach penguin colony – on a single day tour. And that includes a Table Mountain hike, with...
by Dominic Chadbon | May 8, 2015 | Fire & Fynbos |
It’s been seven weeks since fire devastated the central mountains of the Cape Peninsula but they are already turning green. Fresh new leaves are everywhere you look, pushing skywards with unmistakable urgency; after all, fire in the fynbos is nothing less than the...
by Dominic Chadbon | Mar 13, 2015 | Fire & Fynbos, Table Mountain |
The fire began at night. Fuelled by the heat of Cape Town’s hottest ever recorded day and stoked by gale force winds, it rampaged across the middle of the Cape Peninsula from coast to coast. Five thousand hectares of mountain vegetation were incinerated as were...
by Dominic Chadbon | Feb 12, 2015 | Whale Coast |
Lying in the arms of Walker Bay, the otherwise unremarkable town of Hermanus achieves something close to international fame in spring. From early August to the end of October, remarkable numbers of Southern Right Whales are in the Cape’s waters, having migrated here...
