The Fynbos Guy Blog
More Than a Pretty Face
The seventeenth century Dutch settlers might have looked at you a bit oddly had you mentioned to them at the time that their future depended on fynbos. For them, fynbos was ‘fine bush’ – not a reference, perhaps, to the small needle-like leaves shared by so many...
A Winter Hike on Table Mountain
It’s early June and winter is making herself comfortable in Cape Town. Gone are the warm sunny days of summer; it’s cold now, with bad-tempered Atlantic storms bringing heavy rain. Snow falls on the high ground and Table Mountain is often shrouded in dense grey cloud....
A Cape Point Hike at Low Tide
As I stepped onto the beach at Olifantsbos in the Cape of Good Nature Reserve I realised that something was very... different. The tidal range in the Cape is usually modest, rarely dropping more than a metre and a bit. But today the ocean had retreated well over two...
Cape Point Wildlife
Cape Point is your best chance to see wildlife while you’re in Cape Town. The perfect day trip, a Cape Point wildlife tour introduces you to the birds, mammals, insects and reptiles of the Cape mountains and coast. Top of the list are the big mammals. The baboons of...