http://relaxapartmanitara.com/main-site-2/relationship-must-certanly-be-fun-this-is-exactly/ The Chacma baboon is unusual in that it has adapted to life on the beach, eating shellfish and often living by the sea. And here are their tracks!
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Baboons on the Beach.
28-Jun-15The Cape of Good Hope.
28-Jun-15belligerently June 24th. I’m not sure what makes some people – like myself – so curious about certain spots on the map. Other people are not so. On my first trip to Europe I took a ferry from France to Ireland, and Land’s End was visible from the boat, and I just stared and stared at […]
The Cape.
28-Jun-15June 23rd. We inteded to go today to Kirstenbosch, the famed botanical gardens, but failed to get there. We drove down to the Cape of Good Hope, which we thought would be a quick trip, but it was so spectacular and amazing we spent the whole day there, and then drove directly from there to […]
Stellenbosch.
26-Jun-15June 22nd. Another difficult time finding lodging in the dark – apparently this whole area typically is without power every evening. We wanted to be in Simon’s Town, the town furthest out on the Cape of Good Hope, but everything appeared closed, and the place we had in our guidebook was not answering the phone. […]
Route 62.
26-Jun-15June 22nd. On Route 62. It is consistently spectacular. Green fields stretching to mountains, sheep and vineyards and olives and everything else, almost all the available flat land converted to agriculture. It looks like a more spectacular, more varied version of Europe, or a greener, sharper version of California. Marine mists everywhere – in fact […]
In the Republic of Swellendam.
26-Jun-15June 22nd. The tourism guide to the region notes that Swellendam revolted from Dutch Rule in 1795, declaring itself a Republic after the French and American style and the “capital of the world.” Four years later the British navy sailed in and put an end to the Republic.
Into a Blackout.
23-Jun-15June 21st. We had left Oudtshoorn much later than we wanted, and the road was gorgeous – in farm country at the foot of a superlatively beautiful range of mountains – and so we were stopping constantly to get out and enjoy views. Night fell and it became time to look for a place to […]
In the Ostrich Capital of the World.
23-Jun-15June 21st. Oudtshoorn is the first really nice place we’ve seen here. It has trees and finally it feels like we are out of the desert. Lovely old houses on large properties – it reminds me of some prosperous upstate New York towns, but with different details: the houses here are built of sandstone, and […]
Across the Great Karoo.
23-Jun-15June 20th. Almost everyone we spoke with thought it was a bit crazy to drive across the Great Karoo, but we assured them we Americans like open spaces. I think for people from other countries, it seems like a long drive. To us it was an adventure – across the entire country, blasting through […]
The Latinosphere.
23-Jun-15June 20th. A detail I forgot, from the Latinosphere, the small world we Latinists live in: the day after our arrival, before going to Pilanesberg, I met the Classicists in Potchefstroom. We had lunch together, and in the afternoon we all attended a lecture via Skype, from San Antonio, Texas. The lecture was given by […]