Monthly Archives: November 2013
Flowers and stadia
If you haven't already, pick a clear sunny windless day and take some time to visit the park in the early morning (when it opens, at 7am) or in the late afternoon (say, at about 18h00). It's a lovely place to walk around and absorb the tranquility of nature and aroma of our indigenous flora.
A million white trumpets
Red Poppy or Single Ranunculus?
Fire engines and green grass
Art at Tokara 4#4
Art at Tokara 3#4
Art at Tokara 2#4
Art at Tokara 1#4
Late breakfast at Tokara
We'd often heard of Tokara, the wine and olive farm, but never visited - so we "whooped" and patted ourselves on the back when we discovered that they served breakfast until 12pm!
We rushed off to Stellenbosch, and ascended the Helshoogte mountain pass, arriving at Tokara at 11h40, just in time to order breakfast.
It's a beautiful place, and I'll post a few more photos, but in the meantime let me say that you really want to visit the delicatessen (where this photo was taken). The (huge) croissant, bacon, and eggs combination was both delicious and well priced - and their coffee, well let's say that they sure know how to make coffee.
Open gardens: Strange baby statues
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Open gardens: Pretty and white
Open gardens: Opaque and pink
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Open gardens: Underblossom
Open gardens: Tree tap
Now, that's a fairly large tree - I'd guess it's in excess of 100 years old. So, either someone drilled a horizontal hole into the tree and then a vertical one straight down into the ground (which seems unlikely to me), or the water point is so old that the tree grew around the original pipe.
In any event, it was kinda weird to see a tap coming out of a tree with no obvious pipes in the vicinity.
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Open gardens: Beautiful buildings
If you have a spare moment, click though to the their website to read the Rustenberg story - surprisingly, it's somewhat interesting. :)
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Open gardens: Lily of the garden
Open gardens: Pink sunshine
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Open gardens: Lilypad pond baby
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Open gardens: The grim Creeper
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Open gardens: Thatched roof
One of the negative aspects of thatch is that it burns very easily. Once thatch has caught fire it's very difficult to extinguish flames and smoldering embers - which is why insurance companies tend to raise premiums considerably for buildings that have a thatched roofs.
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Open gardens: Little blue flowers
Open gardens: Single yellow flower
Rustenberg Wines open gardens
On a whim, while heading down the Helshoogte mountain pass towards Stellenbosch, I took a right-turn and came across signs pointing to "Open Garden". After a few minutes we discovered the Rustenberg Wine Estate, parked, paid our R30 entrance fee, and started our walkabout at this gate.
I'll post more photos from the walk in my next few posts - hope you enjoy them!
Beach sunset silhouette
Fun digger-toys
Clearly I have an office job - or I guess this wouldn't sound as exciting as it does right now. :)
Volleyball on the beach
For interest sake, and not that I have any affiliation with them, the Virgin Active health club in Green Point has outdoor beach volleyball courts. Not that the courts are on the beach - they've filled huge sandpits with beach sand and voilà, miracled up an awesome addition to their facilities.
Cape Town Zombie Walk : Intensity Zombie
Cape Town Zombie Walk : Military Zombie
Cape Town Zombie Walk : Hoodie Zombie
Read more about the Cape Town Zombie Walk here.