Tag: Cape Town
Long exposure, wide angled images. This one is Venus, Saturn and Scorpio.
The Southern Cross
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Muizenberg Kite Festival
The annual Kite Festival is held in Muizenberg and is really a colourful display of the art of kite making.
Here is a video of two of the kites.
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Disas on Table Mountain
I climbed Table Mountain and found the red disas that endemic to table mountain. Red Disas or more accurately, Table Mountain Disas is the flower that the Western Cape sports teams use as their emblem.
Aside from nearly killing myself in the climb up, it was an amazing experience and well worth the sore legs.
The really nice thing about being in the richest floral kingdom on earth is that there are ALWAYS a number of species flowering, no matter what time of the year you go out looking. This trip was no different.
Just to give you some idea of the difference between our floral kingdom and the rest of the world, Table Mountain alone has more flowering species than the entire United Kingdom has.
Here are some of those pictures:
I went up Skeleton Gorge and you can see the steepness of the trek.
Me. I had to prove I was there and not looking too exhausted.
The top. At last! Muizenberg in the distance and False Bay in the background.
An unidentified blommie until I looked it up and lo and behold, another disa! Disa Ferruginea. Pays to do some reseach doesn’t it?
King Protea (Protea Cynoroides). The dew drops are for real. I was up there very early.
Campylostachys cernua. I was sorry I looked this one up. Blommie is so much easier to spell.
Gladiolus Monticola. I think. If you are a botanist, break it to me genly if I have gotten it wrong, but it is rather photogenic.
And here ladies and gentlemen is the star of the show. Disa Uniflora, the red disa, pride of table mountain. Take your pick. Pretty isn’t it and really worth the walk.
This guy came out to see what all the fuss was about and kindly agreed to be photographed.
More gladiolus? There were lots of them and they really look much better than the pictures make them out to be.
There were literally hundreds of disas. They are DIFFICULT to photograph. They live in dark holes surrounded by bright sunlight. Metering the camera is a nightmare and camera shake quite a common problem.
A waterfall. It had disas in it, but I couldn’t get disas and the waterfall, so just imagine disas!
He joined me for lunch.
More Disas!
This scene was so much like something from Lord of the Rings, I just had to take it. The End of the Road!
Agathapanthus Africanus. Growing wild on the Back Table.
Hely Hutchison reservoirs on the Back Table and the end of the disa route.
The way down. Nursery Ravine. And believe me it doesn’t nurse anyone!
The new moon sets behind Lions Head as hikers descend from the top after watching the sunset.
During that photographic session I saw a green deep sky object. I am still battling to identify it and figure out why it is green. The red circle on the right is a hiker, the red circle on theleft is Venus, but what is the green object?
There are some interesting and different doorways around Cape Town and I am going to post pictures as I collect them. The page is here.
But here are some to start with
There is some great art on the walls of Cape Town. Here are some I found today. As I find more I will add them. More murals here.
This one is a cheat. I actually saw it in Riviersonderend.
I went for a walk this morning and found pictures of some really interesting architecture.
There a more pictures here.
Art Deco really moves me. I love it.
But Cape Town is not limited to just Art Deco. What would you call this? Faux Victorian?
Dunno but it is fun
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Random Photographs
Just a random selection of photographs from here and there.
Dragon fly
Music in the Park
Just a random selection of photographs from here and there.
Dragon fly
Music in the Park
Moody Moon in the clouds
Pigs Ear flower
IMG_0906Tok Tokkie Beetle
Mimosa Thorn Bush
Stilt
Praying Mantis
Moody Moon in the clouds
Pigs Ear flower
Tok Tokkie Beetle
Mimosa Thorn Bush
Stilt
Praying Mantis
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Lights on Lion’s Head
Lions Head has become a popular place to watch the sunset. Every night we watch people descending the peak after dark, their head light visible as bright dots in the darkness. To give some time frame the picture here were taken over a period of about 30 minutes, another time indicator is that you can see a star setting over Lions Head.
The composite track looked like this:
