28 July 2009

Kaapstad

I can’t talk about how beautiful Cape Town is without showing pictures. But even pictures from a professional photographer would not do it justice. Everybody who has been there knows what I’m talking about.

These are random pictures taken over the years.


The picture of Table Mountain from Bloubergstrand that you are required to include with every discussion of Cape Town



Glencairn, Fish Hoek, Kalk Bay


The second most famous view of Table Mountain, from Lion’s Head


Sunrise over False Bay


The city centre, harbour, airport, Table Mountain


Lion’s Head, Camp’s Bay, Table Mountain


Glencairn, Fish Hoek, Kalk Bay


Signal Hill, the city centre and V&A, Robben Island, Table Bay

  
Clouds from Table Bay filling Platteklip Gorge


The famous changing booths at St James


Clouds from Camp’s Bay creeping up Table Mountain


A typical sunset over the Cape 


The same location years later


It is not so much that this is a crappy picture but what you see when you are in the middle of clouds at 1000 metres


Some boulders at Boulders Beach


Completely enveloped by clouds on Table Mountain

 
Simon’s Town Harbour and Fish Hoek


The moon over Hangklip, taken with a borrowed panoramic camera


Not a very sunny day over False Bay
Observant readers may have noticed I like taking pictures of clouds


Cape Town, taken with a borrowed panoramic camera

25 July 2009

Jy is veilig hier

You usually have to drive out of most cities to get any scenery. Cape Town is surrounded by it. Table Mountain cuts through the city and acts as a border for several neighbourhoods. The views from the top are incredible, better than any man made observation tower van heinde en verre. On a clear day you can see the city centre and V&A, past Robben Island and up to Churchhaven on one side, the estates in Clifton and Camps Bay and deep into the Atlantic Ocean on another side. And if you are up for a moeilik hike, across the Flats and out to the Boland. It is almost always a clear day. With over 3 million people you are going to get some air pollution but the city’s location creates a natural ventilation system, what the ouvolk used to call the Cape Doctor, blowing most of the smog into the ocean or up to Lamberts. It’s ok. They deserve it.

22 July 2009

Please Mr Postman

I cannot access my e-mail account for some reason. I don’t know what the problem is. I can open the site but I cannot log in. It gives me an error message that says the page is currently unavailable. It has been saying that for days.

So if you have sent me e-mail and I have not responded, that is why. I’m not ignoring you. I promise.

14 July 2009

Two’s Company

I think it is appropriate that everybody is now talking about Jackson like he is the epitome of all that is good and pure in the world. When you are dead they should remember the good things and not whatever disgusting things were forced upon little boys. Allegedly. I personally think that he never did anything untoward to any children. What I thought was inappropriate was making his daughter give a speech in front of thousands of strangers in that stadium. That seemed more than manipulative. That was just mean.


10 July 2009

The Dating Game: Virgin Territory

We spent the night in the canyon itself, near the Three Rondavels. I have always liked camping but I cannot imagine it was very fun for our chaparones. Hormonal teenagers in the woods, away from their parents, with endless hiding places for mischief cannot be an easy shrift for those responsible. My boyfriend and I could never get away from our friends or the adults, so my honour was never in danger. But we sure tried.


Mac-Mac Falls


The Drakensberge Escarpment
Even if I were a good photographer no picture would do it justice

01 July 2009

The Dating Game: First Kiss

Cheered on by our peers, Mark and I dutifully made our way into the dark wardrobe. I was wallowing too much in my own broken dreams to notice that I was not Mark’s first choice either. Once locked away inside, Mark looked at me like I was not a whore and I looked at him like he was not Aaron. We spent the better part of those seven minutes not doing anything our parents would lose any sleep over.