The Fynbos Guy Blog
FYNBOS IN THE HOOD: THE CAPE FLATS EXPERIENCE
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...
TABLE MOUNTAIN COVERED IN CLOUD? PLAN B IS BETTER
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...
WALKING WITH THE ANCESTORS: MEET THE KHOISAN
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 -...
IN PRAISE OF PROTEAS: FLOWERS OF THE GODS
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 family of...