The Fynbos Guy Blog
Paradise Found! It’s Strandfontein Sewage Works
Wait! I’m not kidding: drive around Cape Town’s biggest water treatment plant and you’ll think you’re on the shores of an East African Rift Valley lake. Great lines of pink honking flamingos, patrolling birds of prey and giant pelicans flying in to land like bombers...
What is Fynbos? An Easy Introduction
Apart from “Are we nearly there yet”, the most common question I am asked while hiking in these Cape mountains is: “What actually is fynbos?” It’s a good question. Is it a bush? Or lots of them? And why does such apparently insignificant-looking vegetation elicit such...
Diamonds in the Rough: Rondebosch Common
It’s been burnt by countless fires, over-grazed by generations of livestock, commandeered as a military camp and used as a cricket pitch. Urban development has nibbled away at its edges, reducing it to 40 hectares (100 acres) in size while alien grasses continue their...
A Cape Town winter – ahem, it’s spring
Late July and Table Mountain sits steaming in mid-winter cloud. Grey, grumpy Atlantic weather is dumping rain on Cape Town and snow on the higher mountains of the interior. Cold, wet and cloudy, this time in the southern hemisphere is labelled ‘winter’ but if anything...