‘Places to visit’ Articles

Christmas is fast approaching us and it is now that you start wondering what are you going to do with the kids for all that time. It won’t be long now until they are breaking up from school. As parents of a lively little girl we were trawling the internet looking for things to do [read more]

A wet Sunday out Hout Bay didn't give us the day out we planned but we did get to see the Cape Point Peninsula from an entirely different perspective. [read more]

To celebrate National Parks Week SANParks are giving all South Africans free entry to Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. The offer is from 12 to 16 September 2011 and all you need to do is turn up at the gate with a South African ID book. This is a brilliant [read more]

There is some great news for the residents of the Cape Point peninsula from the Table Mountain National Parks, with the introduction of a new residents card- called The Green Card. This is essentially a Wild Card with a limited number of entries per year and is solely for the benifit of local people. [read more]

We thought that it would be nice to take advantage of the unseasonally nice weather and take a trip to Cape Point to see if we could see the zebras I recently posted about. Unfortunately the weather did not play ball, it was cold and windy but we still had a cracking day out. [read more]

The season is changing, there is a definite nip in the air, and rain squalls seem to be the flavour of the moment. What better thing to do in such weather than take a family trip to Boulders Beach to see the African Penguins (well, if you are a from the north of England, rain [read more]

I don’t often go to the mall, for me it is the most effective waste of my time imaginable. However, occasionally I have a need for something and have to drag myself there. Many times I just walk from the eastern entrance up to pick and pay. On Sunday I was with D and it [read more]

Some years ago I was walking in the area of Elsies Peak in Fish Hoek. I had not been living here long but had already been to the summit so I decided to explore the other side of the hill. My journey took me down the hill towards the spa but being a bit of [read more]

A recent family trip to Cape Point Nature Reserve nearly ended in disaster, simply because we didn’t know what to do when we had car trouble. So I thought that I would write a post so that in a similar situation you can avoid the same problems. My sister visited me recently. It was her [read more]

The wind was howling from the South East, low clouds scudding over the top of the hills, white horses playing out to sea as I approached one of the Cape Peninsula’s most iconic landmarks- Slangkop Lighthouse. Its hard not to be impressed by this symbol of man’s attempts to tame Cape Point. There are few [read more]