by Dominic Chadbon | Jun 15, 2017 | Fire & Fynbos |
Lying quietly between Simons Town on the Indian Ocean and Scarborough on the Atlantic, the Red Hill mountains are largely unknown even to locals. But it is an easy hiking environment of mostly flat paths meandering around a pair of reservoirs, and Red Hill currently...
by Dominic Chadbon | Nov 6, 2015 | Fire & Fynbos |
Eight months ago I stood in mountains that looked like they had just been napalmed. The fynbos vegetation had completely disappeared, devoured by a 30 metre wall of storm-driven fire that raged mercilessly across the Cape Peninsula’s Silvermine mountains, ending only...
by Dominic Chadbon | May 8, 2015 | Fire & Fynbos |
It’s been seven weeks since fire devastated the central mountains of the Cape Peninsula but they are already turning green. Fresh new leaves are everywhere you look, pushing skywards with unmistakable urgency; after all, fire in the fynbos is nothing less than the...
by Dominic Chadbon | Mar 13, 2015 | Fire & Fynbos, Table Mountain |
The fire began at night. Fuelled by the heat of Cape Town’s hottest ever recorded day and stoked by gale force winds, it rampaged across the middle of the Cape Peninsula from coast to coast. Five thousand hectares of mountain vegetation were incinerated as were...
