When Katherine was still staying with us we took her on a day out to visit the penguins and then on to Cape Point nature reserve.
Boulder beach;
Then on to Cape Point;
There's False Bay on the left and the Atlantic on the right, Table Mountain is in the very far distance at the top right of the photo;
A rock Dassi (closely related to the elephant);
Just liked the colours on this little fellow;
The people in-front made the mistake of stopping to take picture of the Baboons - with the inevitable consequences;
A rare sighting of a herd of Cape Mountain Zebra;
They differ from Plains Zebra with the white underbelly and they don't have a feint black/brown stripe in the middle of the white stripes;
So are they black with white stripes or white with black stripes?
So it's been a while since my last post so there's a lot to catch up on.
Just before Xmas we visited the Cheetah outreach centre with Katherine (our visitor from Texas). The centre has moved from it's old location at the Spier wine estate to a new place at Paardevlei, just outside Somerset West. The new place is bigger and it looks like the cats have more space to run round in (not that they were squashed in before).
Katherine spent some time in one of the cages 'petting' a couple of the younger cheetahs. She still came home with us - guess they'd already been fed that morning.
In addition to the Cheetah they appear to be branching out with some other animals;
This cute little girl is a Serval;
A couple of Black-Backed Jackal
And some very shy Bat Eared Foxes, who use their acute hearing to listen for termites and other insects digging underground, which then then dig up and eat...
A lovely way to spend Xmas eve.
Table mountain from Signal Hill
Archbish Desmond at the V&A unveiling a bronze ele.
