Ride through the Karoo
Vineyards of the Cape
Somerset West
The Pink Palace surrounded by its guards of trees
A load of horseshit
One of the pesky guinea fowls in Avril’s gardens
Old Dutch Erinvale estate
Sunset over False Bay
Artsy
Water runoff path into Avril’s stream
Rehabilitating Avril’s stream
Avril & I
Castle of Good Hope
Old street signs from District Six before demolitions under apartheid
Shackles from the Dutch slave trade
Streets of Bo Kaap
Signs protesting gentrification of Bo Kaap
Mosque
Huh?
Baobab tree fruit! Really unique, a hard dry shell with powdery nuggets inside that you suck on like candy
Only semi-decent shot I got of one of the jazz groups playing
The old Cape Town Hebrew Congregation synagogue
Old newspaper covering clash between Jews and pro-Nazi rally in the 1930s
First view of the fam at dinner
Making sure they don’t get too close to the wrong plants
Future cornfield
Corn seeds
Hay there
Chilling on a cloudy day
Going home after a day’s grazing
A very minimalist kitchen
The farm’s water source
Cactus with prickly pears
Blessed & I outside our cabin
With Jim and Blessed (left to right)
The Picton Castle
One of the dozens of pictures I took of Table Mountain
Up the mesa
View from the top! (better than the pictures I took)
Table Mountain squad
Going back down
Worm farm for composting in the hostel
Army tanks, apparently it was Armed Forces Day
The infamous Foreshore Freeway Bridge, started in the 1970s but never completed due to budget and bureaucratic issues. They said they were gonna build it “for sure” but never did…hah
Some Afro-Futurist art
The unspeakable horrors of “white genocide” in South Africa
More evidence of white genocide. Here we can see one of the last desperate holdouts of white people stranded on a hill, as their co-racialists are massacred in the anarchy below
Hout Bay
Shona sculpture studio
Sculpture in the works, over 2 years in the making
An example of a baboon claiming its prize (I didn’t see this, another friend sent this to me)
Cape of Good Hope
Cape Point
Bunch of jackasses
They were really good posers
Some sea lions hanging around a dock’s fish market
Cabins on Muizenberg beach. Apparently they just served the mundane purpose of changing rooms back in the day before they were painted
Cape Town from the boat
Ntando, one of the former prisoners during the apartheid years
Mandela’s cell
Garden outside block Mandela was in
Port of Table Bay, with the stadium built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup
Last sunset in Cape Town, from Signal Hill
Just a small stretch of a long line of counters at the Eastern Food Bazaar, all sorts of Asian & Middle Easter food. Normally much more packed at rush time
