Great White Sharks to be culled in Western Australia- not G' mate
Today I received a rather alarming status on my Facebook profile about the plan to begin the culling of Great White Sharks in Western Australia. Not only does this plan (which looks like it is going to be put into action) mean that Western Australia is on the verge of a serious ecological mistake it also makes m...
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Author: Russell Hepworth
Cape Town Vineyards
No visit to the Western Cape would be complete without visiting some of the many Cape Town Vineyards.
Traditionally, the Cape Wineland area is thought of as being situated in and around Stellenbosch, about 50km to the east of the CBD. That’s not the full story- there are Cape Vineyards all over the Province- in fact, the first Cape Town Vineyards were on the Cape Point Peninsu...
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The Black South Easter!
On the Cape Point Peninsula we have two prevailing weather patterns- the south easter and the south wester. Usually these two winds can be catagorized by the south wester being the prevailing wind in Cape Points winter season and the south easter being the norm for summer.
South wester is a strong indicator that bad weather is on the way, it normally blows before and after c...
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Big Walk- Road Closures and Expected Delays
Sunday 10th November 2013 sees the annual Big Walk talking place along Main Road. The walk is taking place between Mowbray and Simon's Town and due to the volume of people taking part some roads will be affected.
This is the official organizers schedule of road closures:
Main Road from Simon's Town to Lower Main Road, Observatory-expect delays due to large volumes of ped...
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The Cape Point Chronicle Guide to Selling Your Stuff on Gumtree
In the past couple of weeks we have been going through a consolidation of household goods at Cape Point Chronicle HQ. Through my Father-in-law selling his house in Durban and sending his house contents to us we had a lot of stuff to get rid of if we wanted to get into our house.
We sold some items at Cash Crusaders in Long Beach Mall- namely a gas heater and a humidifier- bu...
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Is Aquaponics a solution for South African food security?
With the world population growing, increasing pressure on agricultural land for the production of bio fuels, dwindling natural resources and the ecological impact of intensive farming techniques; where will our food come from in the future and at what cost?
In South Africa we also have a long term problem looming with water supplies (recent concerns from the EU regarding riv...
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President Obama on a flying visit to Fish Hoek
On Friday last week and yesterday (Sunday 30th June) anyone in the Fish Hoek area would have had to be doing something very interesting to have missed 6 huge, dark coloured helicopters flying in low from False Bay, dropping into Fish Hoek sports fields, pausing there for around an hour and then heading off in various directions.
The first set to arrive on both occasion were ...
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An encounter with a visitor to our shores
Recent posts are beginning to suggest to me that I am becoming a bit of a twitcher. Unfortunately, as per previous posts, I am about the World’s worst bird spotter. I see a bird and think, I should find out what that is! So I remember the detail as best I can and look it up in our trusty, much thumbed, edition of the Sasol Bird Guide, only to discover that I have yet again seen...
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Does the bus service on Fish Hoek make any sense?
A few days ago I was walking with my family past the traffic circle in Fish Hoek, just before the Memorial Gardens when two battle weary taxis chugged, sputtered, coughed, and rattled their way past us- nose to tail. Both these collections of scrap metal and gaffer tape were chock full with punters heading away from Fish Hoek.
The taxis were closely followed by a very large ...
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Blacksmith Lapwing (Plover)
Do we really take notice of what is around us, or do we just think we do?
This evening I was doing the daily dog walk. I must confess that a lot of the time this consists of the same route around the Fish Hoek playing field. Often this is a good time to think and I have often done the whole walk and not really registered the fact- other times the walk is the event and I am a...
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