To add more useful features to the web site I was trawling through widgets that I could use (they are handy little bits of code that sit in the column on the right of the screen) and I came across a weather widget (you may have to scroll down a bit to see it). I just told it where I was in the world and it puts the current weather and a three day forecast. Its pretty basic stuf...
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Cape Point Chronicle
African Penguins at Boulders Beach
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 showers and temperatures in the low teens is considered to be a corker of a bank holiday- head to t...
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Longbeach Mall- Why all the empty units?
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 was raining heavily so we parked in the underground. We needed to go to Pick and Pay and the photo shop on th...
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Dassenburg Development- What Is Going On Here?
The general area of the proposed development- image thanks to Google EarthWork has begun on the new housing development at the foot of the Dassenberg Mountain (at the base of Ou Kaapse Weg). Clearing began last week so it seems unlikely that the development will not happen, unless the developers go out of business.This makes one question what kind of a process has been gone thr...
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Stranded At Cape Point- What To Do If You Break Down In A Nature Reserve
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 first visit to Cape Town and so naturally we were keen to show her all the great places in...
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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 History of the Cape Point Peninsula Article 1: A (brief) laymen’s look at the Geological origins of our beloved Cape Point
Being a curious person I recently got interested in the geology of the region. This was partly fueled by the fact that the view from my computer is of the Dassenburg in Fish Hoek, a most intriguing looking lump of rock. This is part one of a series of articles I am planning and is a brief journey back in time, written by a laymen, for the enjoyment of other laymen.
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Jupiter Returns to the Cape Point Evenings
For the first time in a while the skies are relatively clear tonight and I noticed that Jupiter has returned to our late evening skies. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and many believe that it is a failed star. It has all the elements in it to make a star, it just falls short of creating enough pressure to cause a chain reaction as in the Sun.
Jupiter is a ga...
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Morning out to Noordhoek Farm Village- Breakfast at The Foodbarn
With the weather closing in and the wind picking up we decided to combine a trip to the supermarket with a visit to the Noordhoek Farm Village.
The Noordhoek Farm Village is a great place for us because it allows us to grab a sneaky coffee and it gives our daughter somewhere different to play on the swings and slides- she especially loves the two wooden rocking horses.
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Cape Point Chronicle- what it is all about?
This is my first post to this new resource for the Cape Peninsula and I would like to take a few moments to explain to you what this site is all about.
I love living in this area, and actually start to feel homesick if I spend too much time on the other side of the mountain: and I have every right to feel that way since I chose this area to live in, having not being born any...
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