Life is one big buffet
Elephants need to eat about between 160 and 200kg of vegetation per day which means that they basically eat all day as they go. For them, life is on long buffet.
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19/01/2012
Water monitor (aka Sundays River croc)
Some of the residents of Colchester jokingly refer to the water monitors living in the Sundays River as Sundays River Crocodiles. The reason for this is because visitors spotting them swimming in the river often think that they are looking at a crocodile. Crocodiles never occurred in the area naturally as it gets too cold for them during the winter. Water monitors (or Water liguaans) can grow over 1,5 meters in length with their biggest defence being their tail which…
18/01/2012
Montagu Panorama
Even though I have a nifty little panorama setting on my camera I don't always do a lot of panorama photos. The reason for this is mainly because the photo often looks a bit distorted if the horizon is a flat one. Standing at one of the lookout spots overlooking the town of Montagu surrounded by beautiful mountains and summer fruit orchards (peach and apricot), I decided to give it a shot. The result encouraged me to take a couple more…
18/01/2012
Zebra at university
After yesterday's post on the Grysbok Nature Reserve tour, Peter Betts made a comment on my Facebook page regarding the reserve. Peter, who has a deep found love for nature, lives right on the edge of the reserve in the suburb of Summerstrand and commented on how interesting a trip it is. He highlighted something that I didn't mention which are the Khoisan shell middens in the reserve. He also mentioned how he loves hearing the zebras calling in the…
17/01/2012
Montagu War Memorial
I've said it before and I will say it again and again and again (every time I find another one). Just about every town has a war memorial. Click to see those in Knysna and Mossel Bay which I've blogged about before. Driving around Montagu I was looking for interesting places and stumbled upon the Montagu War Memorial remembering those from the town who fell during the Anglo Boer War, WWI and WWII. I'm not a war junkie so I…
17/01/2012
Grysbok Reserve tour
Alan Fogarty of Alan Tours does a very informative tour of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's Grysbok Nature Reserve. Usually the tours are conducted in an open 4x4, but on the day we went the weather was a bit iffy and he took us in his closed vehicle. We stopped a couple of times during the tour and Alan showed us the indigenous dune vegetation and fynbos as well as the plants that the Khoisan used for medicinal and other purposes. The…
16/01/2012
Montagu NG Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church)
The little town of Montagu in the Western Cape truly is a gem of a town with beautiful old buildings, lots of history, fruit, mountains and nature all around. Montagu was founded in 1851 on the farm Uitvlucht. The town was named after John Montagu, the British Secretary of the Cape, who was responsible for the building of the Cogmans Kloof Pass that opened up the town for passing trade. One of the most significant buildings in the town is the…
16/01/2012
Grysbok Nature Reserve
The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's South Campus (previously the University of Port Elizabeth main campus) is very unique in that it is the only university campus in South Africa wholly situated inside a nature reserve. The campus covers 830 ha and was declared a Private Nature Reserve in 1983. The reserve is dominated by the St Francis Dune Thicket and fynbos vegetation. The vegetation is highly threatened due to agricultural clearing and coastal development and the NMMU Nature Reserve, also called the…
15/01/2012
Aya’s garden
In yesterday's post I wrote about Aya's Ceramic Studio in New Brighton. Visiting Aya's studio one immediately realises how artistic she is. Her studio, house and garden is one big exhibition area for her art with ceramic pieces scattered and placed all over.
14/01/2012
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