Category Archives: flickr

Name that bird

By 6000 | 6000 | September 6, 2009

We were down at the Waterfront today, terrorising sealife in the aquarium, watching eco-friendly puppet shows and drinking chocolate milkshakes. While I was enjoying a coffee at the pub [shurely shome mistake?], I spotted this little fellow, who later tried to defaecate on me. Despite consulting Sinclair, Hockey and Tarboton’s Birds of Southern Africa (which, [...]

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Then and now

By 6000 | 6000 | September 5, 2009

What a difference two years, four months and thirteen days makes (as the song goes) (sort of):         Less golf course, more footy stadium. All the boxes ticked, then. When I was adding yesterday’s photo to my Green Point Stadium Flickr set, I noticed that I had taken one back in April 2007 from almost exactly [...]

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World of Birds revisited

By 6000 | 6000 | August 31, 2009

It had been a while since we had been out to Hout Bay’s World of Birds and been crawled all over by squirrel monkeys, so we met up with friends and headed out there yesterday. Maybe it’s because we’re nearing the end of winter now and not yet into tourist season, but I have to [...]

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Gumtree at Kirstenbosch

By 6000 | 6000 | August 29, 2009

Gumtree, originally uploaded by Ballacorkish A snappy quota snap for today – my Saturday promises to be hectic and rushed – although there’s always a slim chance of something later if you’re lucky. Warmer days at Kirstenbosch in February. With my favourite lump of rock in the background. You’d think that the best gardens in [...]

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Three Prague Bridges

By 6000 | 6000 | August 15, 2009

I was last in Prague [many] years ago, but I loved the place and would be very happy to go back there. Especially given the fact that the kids are playing up today and it’s grey and damp in Cape Town.  Capetonian Joy-Anne Goodenough – whose photographs I featured back in March - has been spending a [...]

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