by Dominic Chadbon | Jul 24, 2019 | Fynbos |
I know I’m always boasting about the diversity of fynbos vegetation but even you will go ‘wow’ at this one. The Ericas are heathers and despite their dainty, shivery-twigged appearance, it is these shrubs that best illustrate the bio-insanity of fynbos. Heathers are...
by Dominic Chadbon | Jun 19, 2019 | Conservation |
Not many visitors to Cape Town go to Bellville. A splodge of light industry and housing north of the city, it is perhaps ‘Jersey-side’ to New Yorkers; to Londoners it is Croydon. But travel to the University of the Western Cape’s Bellville campus and something...
by Dominic Chadbon | May 3, 2019 | Table Mountain |
Here’s something Cape Town Tourism fails to mention in its marketing literature: the top of Table Mountain is covered in cloud for an average of 184 days a year. Multiply by two and you have a mountain that’s clouded over every other day. My source? The Mountain – An...
by Dominic Chadbon | Apr 10, 2019 | People & Fynbos |
So who were the indigenous people of the Cape, watching in silence as the European sailing ships slipped into Table Bay? It’s a question that usually makes people frown, scratch their heads and say “hmm…” There were people here all right – tens of thousands of them...
by Dominic Chadbon | Mar 19, 2019 | Fynbos |
Interesting character, Proteus. Son of Neptune – Greek God of the sea – his speciality was shape-changing, morphing into any form he chose – a leopard, a tree, some water. It’s a neat trick and one that inspired Carl Linnaeus – father of taxonomy – to name a...
