The Fynbos Guy Blog
NATURE’S SUPERMARKET: TRADITIONAL USES OF FYNBOS
Ever got home after doing the shopping and discovered – with a groan and the slap of your forehead – that you’ve forgotten to buy sugar? Or an intestinal worm purgative? Don’t worry, it happens to me too. These days you remedy the situation by trying to remember the...
FYNBOS AND FIRE: WHY DOES IT BURN?
With all this fuss made about the wonders of fynbos vegetation, it does seem a bit drastic that it all gets burnt to cinders from time to time. But stand in a patch of flower-spangled fynbos anywhere in the mountains in the Western Cape and you are looking at a...
EASY DOES IT: A SHORT FYNBOS WALK
I took a casual stroll through some fynbos the other day. It was a typical Cape Town morning – sunny, warm and breezy – and the air fizzed with the industrious hum of insects moving from flower to flower. Lizards – Cape skinks – scuttled under bushes as I walked, and...
BREAKFAST AT HANGING ROCK – THE ROOI ELS RESERVE
Wind-torn, sun-scoured and torched by fire, the mountains at the Rooi Els Reserve may not sound the most appealing destination but what I saw there early one morning nearly made me choke on my bran muffin. An hour’s drive from Cape Town, Rooi Els (pronounced ‘Roy...