What better way to start the new year with a beautiful sunrise over the Boland Mountains.
Wishing you all a great 2013 and may the sun shine on you.
Category Archives: Cape Town
SA Local Election – Done the deed in under 5 minutes – some observations and ID stamp picture going back to 1992.
Must say I was impressed with the IEC at my local voting station. I was in and out in under 5 minutes with no issues whatsoever. The one ballot had about 50 parties on it and must say I did not had a clue or have never heard about at least 40 of those parties. The other ballot paper had about 30 names on it and I recognised probably about 5 of those names. I just cannot see how the majority of those on the ballots will get any meaningfull votes.
The oher thing I observed was that the DA had a table right outside the door of the voting station. As far as I know, parties are not allowed to do any cavasing today and under the banner of checking whether your name is on the list, thay came very close to canvasing.
I have now collected a fair amount of stanps and stickes in my ID book. Here is a picture of it
As you can see it goes all the way back to the Referendum we had in 1992 and variuos elections since then. Can you recognised the stamp that was used today? Yes I did remember to blank out my ID number 
Have you done your deed today and what was your experience like?
Cape Town weather, not looking great.
The weather for the coming week. Make sure you keep warm.
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Winter has arrived in Cape Town
Just had a look at the weather for the rest of the week. Take out that woolies and make sure you warm.
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Photos – Doves, clouds and morning sunrise
Was again one of those glorious Cape Town morning and this is the sunrise and cloud formations that greeted me.
Also I had some early visitor this morning sitting on my balcony.
Glorious Cape waether this week — that is till Friday
What a glorious day in Cape Town today. Here is what the weather is looking like for the rest of the week.
As you can see. nice and sunny until the weekend when the rain is coming.
The most perfect day in Cape Town.
Today was one of those perfect days in Cape Town. I went to visit family in Melkbosstrand and on my way home I stopped at Bouberg beach and took some photos of what else than Table Mountain.
There was some boats in the bay on one wreck was so close, it looked like one was able to touch it.
And what is a view of Table Mountain and Cape Town without the Cape Town Stadium.
In my Picasa Gallery you can see a closer view of the stadium together with some other photos I have taken of ships in the bay and people (babies) and dogs on the beach..
Castle of Good Hope not on the list …
WebUrbanist ran an article today called Starry Knights: 14 Stellar Star-Shaped Fortresses which did not include our beloved castle in Cape Town. Here is a picture I grabbed from Google Maps.
From Wikipedia:
Built by the Dutch East India Company between 1666 and 1679, the Castle is the oldest building in South Africa. It replaced an older fort called the Fort de Goede Hoop, which was made out of clay and timber and built in 1652 by Jan van Riebeeck upon his arrival at the Cape.
The purpose of both were to act as a replenishment station for ships
passing the treacherous coast around the Cape on long voyages between
the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies.
Morning sunrise through the clouds
Took these this morning while the sun was trying to burst through the clouds.
Click on the image to view a larger one. These photos were taken with my Canon Powershot SX20 IS and using the sunset setting.
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Sunrise over Cape Mountains
There was this little bit of cloud over the Hottentot Mountains and as luck would have it, this morning, the sunrise was through this little bit of clouds which made it spectacular.
Here is some photos for you to enjoy.
These photos were taken with my Canon Powershot SX20 at various focal lengths, f stops and exposure times. Click on each image to enlarge.
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