Category: this is south africa

Seal Island quota photos

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More tourist stuff today with the tourists. Cape Town is full of them.

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It was ball-achingly hot again today, so the breeze on the Nauticat boat out to Duiker Island was a great relief. Unsurprisingly, there were seals. Great swathes of them; almost as many as tourists.
The seals along South Africa’s shores eat over 200 000 000 tonnes of fish each year. Want to do something to promote local fish stock sustainability? Kill a seal.
Not really, obviously. That would be a horrible thing to do – although undoubtedly beneficial for the fish.

I would definitely recommend the hour long trip out to Seal Island though. Great fun for adults and kids alike, and good value at R50 and R20 respectively.

A Grand Day Out

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We did the touristy thing today and headed out to Simondium, on the outskirts of Franschhoek.

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A quick stop at Dalewood Fromagerie for some of their award winning Huguenot cheese was followed by a visit to Solms Delta,where we were helped out by the chatty and informative Leon.

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Then on via Vrede en Lust – lovely architecture, disappointing wines – for lunch in The Glasshouse at Babylonstoren. Because when it’s 43C in the shade, a long walk through some kitchen gardens is exactly what you need. Lunch was exactly what I needed though and it was really good.
And then home on the chaotic N1 and straight into the pool and a cold beer.

My camera is on enforced leave at the moment getting repaired, so I’m relying on my phone to record the holiday. It’s ok, but it’s not as good as my camera. That said, my camera isn’t great at making phone calls, so I guess all’s fair etc etc.

Bullfinch

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Check out this Christmassy ad for Disseldons – “Two sisters selling pretty things at affordable prices”. I’m not really into pretty things, but even I have to say that their pretty things do look quite pretty. I especially like the Pacman one.

Anyway, that aside, here’s the ad:

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Only issue (aside from the possible slight breakage of Facebook competition rules) is that the bird pictured therein isn’t a European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) but a Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula). In fact, if you look ever so carefully under “of our” on the bottom block of text, it even says so.

I can like to know my European garden birds.

Oops.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

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Hello again.

I really wasn’t even going to mention this, but it seems that I am duty bound to by the many (two) regular readers who have registered this blog into the 2012 SA Blog Awards.

What I am not going to do is beg for votes as some classless individuals have already been doing on twitter. Do you really think Gareth Cliff gives a flying flip about your blog? He certainly doesn’t give a toss about mine, although 5fm management did memorably have a few words to say back in February.

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They’re Back…

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No, not the aliens. These ladies:

FasAidaYes, it’s Fascinating Aida.
You may remember that I went to see them in February 2011 and that’s exactly why I will be going to see them again. Absolutely hilarious stuff. Don’t miss it.

They’re doing Joburg from 15-27 Jan 2013 and Cape Town from 30 Jan-16 Feb 2013.