by Dominic Chadbon | Feb 11, 2022 | Fynbos |
Typical. You come all the way to Cape Town for a summer holiday and what happens? The wind blows so hard you lose your favourite hat. Oh, it’s bright and sunny alright, but the beaches are filled with flying sand and the ocean has been whipped up into a frothing...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jan 21, 2022 | Nature |
Dawn over a dark Atlantic Ocean. My eyes were already open when I heard the sound of bodies moving quietly behind me. It was, however, just my family beginning to wake up. We’d spent the night on the cliffs above the beach at Olifantsbos near Cape Point and it was...
by Dominic Chadbon | Nov 11, 2021 | Nature |
Oh, I know you know the clouds. There’s cumulus and cumulonimbus and … er … strata-something and then … hmm … Sirius? Or is that a star? Okay, perhaps it’s time for a quick guide to the clouds, and why not? Knowing your clouds – in an outdoor setting anyway – could...
by Dominic Chadbon | Oct 13, 2021 | Fynbos |
What does it take to get a bit of mountain named after you? I mean, I’ve been tramping up and down these Cape Mountains for a quarter of a century and all I’ve got are dodgy knees and a stress fracture. The thought occurred to me as I was hiking Elsie’s Peak, a modest...
by Dominic Chadbon | Sep 16, 2021 | Fynbos |
I know you love nature but I wonder what kind of nature-lover you are. The biologist E O Wilson identified two types. I fall into the first: the ‘big organism’ tribe. We are always on the lookout for large exciting things – mammals, birds, butterflies, flowers –...
