muizenberg – Page 5 – Notes from the Cape

Published May 22, 2011

Cheers!

I don’t get invited to weddings that often. Most of my friends are married, and we have not yet reached the stage of children getting married. So I was quite excited to attend a very festive wedding last night. Although i thought that an outdoor wedding was a little brave at this time of the year, the weather played along just fine, and we celebrated at the site of the Battle of Muizenberg (remember the cannon that I posted a few weeks ago) under a wonderfully warm sky.

Cheers to Caro and Pete, have a wonderful honeymoon!

Here is a picture of the bride.

ps: tomorrow I will post a pic of the battle site.

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Published April 8, 2011

I’d like to be under the sea…

…in an octopus’ garden in the shade

Shouldn’t it be in an octopi’s garden?

Anyway, this octopus does not live in the shade. He lives in the sun, specifically on the ledge above somebody’s front door. It looks like he is made entirely of trash, mostly cool drink bottles. Although it is a little strange, I kind of like it.

I wonder if he comes alive and walks around at night?

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Published April 5, 2011

Cannon from the Battle of Muizenberg

These two cannon sit on the station platform at Muizenberg train station. They were supposed to have been used during the Battle of Muizenberg in 1795, fought between the British and the Dutch. The British won, resulting on the the 1st British Occupation.

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Published April 4, 2011

Railway tracks – Muizenberg

There is a pedestrian crossing by the beach at Muizenberg train station. The surfers often use it to move between the surf shops on the main road and the beach. This shot was taken looking down the tracks towards Muizenberg Station, literally on the tracks. Yes I did look first and please don’t try it at home :-).

Here is a zoomed in version.

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Published April 3, 2011

Muizenberg Train Station

The signbar of Muizenberg trainstation, with False Bay and Simonstown in the background. If you travel on the trains in Cape Town, you will see these signs at every station.

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Published February 26, 2011

Misty Muizenberg

For the last few mornings and evenings, we have been having a rather strange hot and muggy coastal mist, which means that I never seem to see my house in sunlight. Of course the weather at my work in Durbanville is wonderfully sunny. How strange.

This shot is of the pedestrian footbridge crossing Zandvlei on the Muizenberg side of the vlei, a shortcut to the railway station and main business areas.

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Published February 13, 2011

Dog walking on Muizenberg Beach

Muizenberg beach is a favourite spot for morning dog walking. We often take our dogs for a walk on the beach on the weekends, and they love the space, the freedom and of course socializing with all the other dogs. Mostly all the dogs want to do is run around and have fun; I have seldom seen a scuffle between any dogs.

Of course you don’t need to have a dog to enjoy the beach :-)

Muizenberg beach is one of the reasons that I love living in Lakeside; It truly is magnificent.

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Published December 7, 2010

Cape Town from Pringle Bay

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In a recent post I promised to show you a photo of Cape Town from the “other side” of False Bay. Well, here is a view of the False Bay coast of Cape Town, taken from Pringle Bay, looking a Simonstown on the left, heading past Muizenberg and towards Cape Town itself on the right.

Pringle Bay is a wonderful area, amazingly under-developed, with the most beautiful beach. We spend Saturday and Sunday there, and it was such a relaxing break, much needed to charge the batteries before the Christmas chaos about to come.

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Emily

We took Eccles and Emily with us, and they both (literally) had a whale of a time.

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Eccles

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Surfing Guinnes world record attempt

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Today was the (by now annual) attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most surfers riding on the same wave. The record of 110 surfers was set at the same spot (the famous Surfers Corner at Muizenberg Beach) almost a year ago.

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Since I live so close to the beach, I had to pop around and see how they were doing. Over 150 surfers waiting in line in an attempt to get over 110 people surfing at the same time.

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So did they manage to break the record? Although over 90 surfers rode a single wave, the previous record was not beaten. Perhaps next year.

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Published August 20, 2010

Birds landing

Cds MG 0177 There is a tiny lagoon on the beach, just opposite the landfill on Baden Powell drive which I often drive past. In the morning it is covered in Seagulls and small birds enjoying the shallow waters.

Today I stopped to take a pic of them, and I gaught this show of the two birds fighting (or possibly mating). I really don’t know Seagulls too well, but they constantly literally flying into each other and almost chasing each other away.

It was an interesting site, and I think it makes quite a nice photo.

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