Category: photos
Old Dubai
A few blocks of restored buildings, containing an art museum. Later, a visit to the spice souk and the gold souk.
“Old” in this case means a few hundred years – truly ancient by Dubai standards, where an “old” building might be twenty years old.
Return to Cape Point
We took some side roads this time, saw more wildlife.
Scarborough Sunset
New Year’s Eve
World of Birds
A bird zoo in Cape Town – also featuring monkeys
Cape Town Castle
The original Portuguese fort was destroyed so the Dutch could build this five-pointed castle, which the English later used. It was also the governor’s house and the prison.
Built just above the beach (in fact the gatehouse had to be moved after it was found to be too vulnerable to spring tides), the castle is now nearly a kilometer inland, with most of its cannons pointing at a railyard.
VOC == Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie == [Dutch] United East India Company
Protected: Cape Town Castle – Family
Aquila pt 5
Nesting Birds
Oystercatchers on the nest, and plovers with chicks, at Scarborough Beach
Cederberg pt. 2
More hiking in Cederberg national park.
