The Fynbos Guy Blog
AFTER THE RAIN
Now that was a wet month. My rain gauge recorded nearly 70% of 2022’s total precipitation in July 2024. Reservoirs in the Western Cape (nearly dry in 2017) are now overflowing, if not bursting their dam walls, and every time it rains in my neighbourhood, floodwater...
BLUE MOON AT BLACK ROCKS
A blue moon isn’t really blue; it’s when two full moons occur in the same month. It’s a rare calendar event – hence “once in a blue moon” - but a more unusual lunar phenomenon also exists. If a full blue moon is its closest point to the earth during its elliptical...
THE CAPE POINT BIG FIVE
Oh, so you thought a trip to Cape Point meant cute penguins and selfies while wandering willy-nilly through the fynbos? Beware. As modest as the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve appears, it is home to animals the size of a rhino, others with fangs longer than those of...
DESCENT INTO HELL – ALIEN FORESTS
It begins with the outliers. Small, sneaky, they hide behind bigger bushes or wedge themselves onto cliff-faces, surveying the landscape with the rapacious eye of a thin-ribbed colonialist. As your descent from the high ground continues, larger, long-limbed gangs of...