Tag Archives for " Western Cape "

Jan 14

#808. Monday Post (14 Jan 2019) – Just one thoughtless person…

You may be aware that we’ve been besieged in the Kogelberg region, by huge veldt fires since New Years Eve. The area is a United Nations Biosphere – the biodiversity is believed to be greater than anywhere else on the planet; more than 1500 distinctly different forms of flora can be found in […]

Protea leaves - Fuji X-Pro1, Fujinon 35mm f1.4

Dec 20

#439. Photographing fynbos and writing the words – take 3

By Paul Perton | Travel Photography

Surprisingly, shooting the images for this post has proved to be much easier than writing the words. This is my third (and hopefully, last) attempt. Fynbos (Afrikaans, pronounced fanebos, meaning; small bush or little leaves) proliferates all along the Southern Cape coast, its biodiversity of several thousand species is reputed to be greater […]