chivalrously June 25th. Another long, full day of incredible experiences. We arrived at Tanikwa, and after a little waiting but very little to-do (signing an indemnity form releasing them from all responsibility if we get maimed by the animals), we were led to the cheetah enclosure. As we approached it, walking along a long fence, a […]
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Walking With Cheetahs.
07-Jul-15Knysna.
06-Jul-15buy prednisone in the uk June 24h. We arrived late, coming from Cape Town, and are now in Knysna (pronounced “nize-nuh”), a holiday town on the Indian Ocean. As usual, there is no one here; winter in a seaside town. What is more, the South Africans seem to shut down at night: for sure in the hotel industry it is […]
In the Garden of God.
01-Jul-15June 24th. Today is the feast of St. John, and we spent it in the center of one of the oddest parts of the natural world, Kirstenbosch, the great botanical garden of the Cape. The whole world is divided into six “floristic provinces,” where general distinctions in flora can be observed, and for the most […]
Chapman’s Peak Drive.
29-Jun-15Driving along the Atlantic to Cape Town we had to take Chapman’s Peak Road, an incredible road blasted into the sea-cliffs. The cliffs are sheer and the road shows the greatest engineering ingenuity, its route climbing up several hundred feet above the sea to exploit the seam between two rock formations, being hacked into a […]
Native Plant Nurseries in Africa.
29-Jun-15June 24th. Following the Cape up to Cape Town, we came across Good Hope Nursery, “specialist in indigenous plants.” I screeched to a halt and backed up. Though we were arriving almost exactly at closing time, I got one of the workers there to give me a brief tour of the place, as I wanted […]
The Shores of Africa.
28-Jun-15Baboons on the Beach.
28-Jun-15The 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!
The Cape of Good Hope.
28-Jun-15June 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 […]
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 […]