The Fynbos Guy Blog
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...
THE HIDDEN GEMS OF ELANDS’ PASS
“Wait a minute,” I hear savvy locals say. “The hidden gems of Elands’ Pass? Isn’t that where the N2 highway runs over those mountains near Cape Town? Do you mean Sir Lowry’s Pass? One of the busiest bits of road in the province?” Yes I do. It may be called Sir Lowry’s...