There has been a long going correspondence in the local free papers regarding the lack of responsibility among the far south's dog walkers- usually regarding not picking up the brown smelly stuff. I was particularly mobilized to write this post in response to a letter in Thursday's paper regarding the introduction of a 'dog walking club' on Fish Hoek playing fields. Under the p...
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Solar Flare Causing Dangerous Levels of UV in Cape Point Peninsula
A solar event, roughly 93 million miles from Earth will have long lasting effects on us in Southern Africa, the Western Cape and in particular the Cape Point Peninsula, if we don't take precautions over the coming months.
The Sun has spewed out billions of tons of radioactive material from its surface in an astrological event called a 'solar flare': think of it as the Sun ...
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A Cape Point Landmark in Poor Condition- Slangkop Lighthouse: TLC Required
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 better experiences of driving around the area than that of coming over t...
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Coastal Protection Zone By-Law: Cape Town Takes A Step In the Right Direction
The city of Cape Town has released a draft proposal for a new by-law, designed to protect what is left of our 230km of coastline from further development, and hopefully save the city some money in the process.
Several developments around the coast cost the city a small fortune to keep maintained, several of them are in the Cape Point Peninsula area (the railway to Simons T...
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Hout Bay and the Cape Point Peninsula Internet News Service
I enjoy doing things for Cape Point Chronicle, and I am flattered that anybody actually reads this stuff. So imagine my delight when I received a ping back that an article had been published on another site (with full credit for me of course).
Cape Point Chronicle was never devised to be a news service, I don't have the time or the inclination to make it one- the things on t...
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Holiday Accommodation Page Added
Welcome to the New Year and wishing all our readers a very prosperous 2011.
Over the holiday period I was reviewing the statistics for Cape Point Chronicle, mainly who was visiting the site and where they are from. This proved to be very revealing.
Cape Point Chronicle was devised as a local resource, aimed at people who live in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, particular...
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Thinking of Joining the Exodus to UK? Think Again!
My wife is a travel agent and judging by the enquiries she gets many South Africans have a desperate desire to emigrate. Australia is popular because many see it as SA without the social problems. New Zealand is popular because it isn’t full of Australians. However, by far the most desirable destination is the UK.
People’s reasons for leaving are varied, or that is what ...
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Cape Point Half Marathon
I have been contacted by Gavin Ross of www.Trailrunning.co.za regarding a half marathon which is taking place on the Cape Point Nature reserve on 14th November, 2010. Anyone who is interested in taking part should contact Gavin using the email address info@trailrunning.co.za. The event is taking place in the early morning and the reserve will be closed to the general public unt...
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Baboons: Practical tips for living in harmony with our simian neighbors- part 2
As promised, this time I will look at things that you can do outside the home to reduce the likelihood of a Baboon troop wrecking your garden.
First of all you need to realize why the baboons are visiting your garden. They are primarily looking for food, and it is a good time to raise an often over looked issue here: the food source may not be in your property, it may be in ...
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Football World Cup- Is there a real legacy?
Being that it was a stunning Saturday morning and I had my delightful daughter to entertain I decided to take her on her tricycle down to Fish Hoek sports field for a trundle around.
Whilst down there we stopped for a while to watch a junior football game which was taking place on the bottom pitch, in the corner nearest the baseball club. I managed to work out from the paren...
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