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11 Oct

Mountains In The Sea Video

For a while now people have been telling me that they'd like to understand why we rave about the Mountains In The Sea trail from Table Mountain to Cape Point. Well Dean Paarman managed to upload a short video onto our FACEBOOK profile. For an i cheap cialis online dea of the most spectacular walk in the world - have look at the short video: online casino gratis ...

23 Aug

What pollinates flowers that smell like chocolate?

This week I took a group of climate-change academics from Japan on a tour. We stopped at the Harold Porter Nature Reserve where we found this large Bietou (Chrysanthemoides monolifera). The BSix Pack Abs Exercises - 50% Comm. - Elite Marketing=big Bucks For Youietou is a tough beautiful pioneering species from the daisy family. It’s genus name refers to the fact that it looks like a chrysanthemum and the species name refers to the fact that its berry-like fruits are arranged like a necklace. The common name, bietou is the original...

9 Aug

Hike and Bike

I was recently invited by Gustav Erlank to join a cycle tour along the Atlantic Seaboard. One of my sons came along and brought a friend. It was a magnificent day and everyone of every age enjoyed it thoroughly. That’s when I rThe Kidney Disease Solution - 75% Commissionsealised that active people are active people . . . and that while we at WALK IN AFRICA are unashamedly walking addicts, we sometimes also enjoy the thrill of leg-powered wheels. So we have partnered with the best cycling company in Cape...

2 Aug

Devil’s Peak and the Table Mountain tablecloth

    Jan Van Hunks was a retired sea captain who liked to smoke his pipe in the mornings and used to do so on the slopes of the mountain now called Devil's Peak. He smoked there because his wife used to chase him away when smoking in the house. One day as he was sitting there enjoying his smoke, a sHolothinktrange looking man appeared and asked him for a light. He gave the man a light, and for some reason the man asked him for a smoking contest.  Van Hunk agreed. They...

14 Jul

The missing Saldanha Bay

Antonio De saldanha (Potuguese admiral and explorer) was the first European ever recorded to have first climbed up Table Mountain in May 1503. This was after he was anchored in what today is called Table Bay as a ship captain. He was not sure if he had rounded the cape and decided to climb up the mountain which was adjacent to the bay to see where he was. Having replenished his water supply he named the bay Aguada De Saldanha (The watering place of Saldanha)order cialis. In 1601 a Dutch...

24 Jun

On top of the clouds

Yesterday a family from San Francisco joined me for a walk up Table Mountain.  They couldn’t have chosen a better day! It was one of those magical, crystal-clear winter days. We ascended in sunshine and when we arrived at the summit and looked westward, we discovered that we were above the clouds. I always get a thrill when looking down onto clouds from a mountain top.         Tassignment helphe day was made extra special for me by the presence of a dear friend and one of southern Africa ’s truly great...