Coffee substitute heh? I think I'll have to give this a try. Anybody know if Nespresso make the Acacia Karroo flavour? :P
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Into the Cape Quarter
Saturday morning on Buitengracht street
Following the fan walk
Iron gates of the Cape Quarter
Mercedes 220SE
Baker Sound & Security
Tintin in Africa
The Pied Piper of Scotland
A little more construction
Development and progress
Lindt factory and shop
Green Point streets
Halloween party poster
Grand 1888 – A Dutch bicycle
Walking to work
Control that gas!
Waterkant Street
Unauthorised Entrance Prohibited
Hijacked photoshoot
This one was taken while the real photographer (and he did have a bigger lens) was trying to direct the model to walk just right up a nearby set of stairs. I took a few more close-up photos after this first shot - she was quite beautiful, actually.
Trash art
Cylcists? What?
World Naked Bike Ride – 2013
Each year the World Naked Bike Ride organises an awareness protest against the high levels of carbon emissions in our cities. This weekend was, with Cape Town and the Argus Cycle Tour in fully swing, the perfect time to do so in Cape Town.
I won't bore you with what we all know about carbon monoxide and the excessive use of combustible fuel, but what I guess is worth mentioning is that if Cape Town were legislatively a more bike-friendly city (like say Paris, Amsterdam, or San Francisco is) then we'd probably have fewer cars on the road, less pollution in the air, fitter-leaner friends, and more money to spend of the fun things in life, rather than on petrol and vehicle maintenance!
The reality is though that even if a large proportion of the city's inhabitants became lean-mean-cycling-machines, the poorer folk who can't afford to fix their smelly-stinky vehicles will still drive smelly-stinky vehicles, the more affluent will still drive their large gas-guzzling 4x4s and muscle cars, and businesses trying to squeeze every penny out to survive still won't send trucks spewing black fumes to the mechanic or graveyard.
All of this said, still, if we were able to make Cape Town cyclist-friendly, and if we were able to separate where cars, buses, and trucks ride from where cyclists do, it would go a long way to reducing our carbon footprint and creating healthier, happier people.
Launching your kayak
The root cause of his troubles appeared to be his paddles getting caught up in seaweed and in so doing dragging the slimy green substance into the kayak, over his feet. That caused enough delay and distraction to allow time for the oncoming waves to push his kayak back against the shore, restarting the entire process of dismounting from the vessel, lining it up, hopping in and paddling like a frenzied cat in an icy pond of water.
I kinda wanted to cheer as on his fourth or fifth attempt he managed to break free and overcome the waves.
33 Minutes to dusk
A sun on the horizon
Blue skies and Lion’s Head
Wrapping up beach season
Industry and mines
Most of us who work, work hard. But, don't you think that miners (the guys who work and live far away from their families, and labour under the most arduous of conditions) should be given just a little more respect than we tend to give them? Perhaps they should be paid a little more than we think is fair. They're important people, and after all, we're not in the times of Sneferu and Khufu.
I'll step down from my soap box now. :)
Cathedrals and crosses
Cape canal
Why are people so messy? Sure, Cape Town's wind doesn't help with this type of pollution - it's all too easy for papers and plastics to get blown out of people hands, or from their bags. If you drop a piece of paper when the wind's at it's best, there's no hope of retrieving it. But, it's often also the case that people have no sense for the environment and don't think twice before dumping their litter.