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Wed, Jan 26, 2022

Eye on Life

Broad interest online magazine

Cool and cloudy

Jan 25, 2022Jan 25, 2022 eyeonlif 3 Comments beauty, Cape Point, Cape Town, fresh air, healthy, hiking, kelp, nature, sea, seashore

My first ‘proper’ walk since last year, post-Covid and finally conquering the fatigue. Such a pleasure to be back on

First heatwave of summer

Jan 8, 2022Jan 8, 2022 eyeonlif 0 Comments beauty, birds, Cape Point, Cape Town, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, nature

Where is the best place to be when the mercury is soaring, the palm trees are motionless and even the

Protected: Interlude with a butterfly

Jan 7, 2022Jan 7, 2022 eyeonlif beauty, butterfly, Cape Town, chrysalis, fragile, kommetjie, nature

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Feathers flying

Dec 30, 2021Dec 30, 2021 eyeonlif 0 Comments avian activity, birds, Cape Town, deck, feathers, feeder, garden, kommetjie, nature

Over the last week there has been plenty of opportunity to sit on the deck and watch the avian antics

Protected: The dreaded lurgy

Dec 28, 2021Dec 28, 2021 eyeonlif Covid, heal the world, health, nature, recovery

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Another helluva hot hike

Dec 21, 2021Dec 21, 2021 eyeonlif 0 Comments Alphen trail, beauty, Cape Town, Constantia greenbelt, fresh air, healthy, heatwave, hiking, nature, perspiring

For weeks we have complained about the wind in Cape Town (normal for this time of year) and now that

It takes time and patience

Dec 16, 2021Dec 16, 2021 eyeonlif 1 Comment birds, Cape Town, False Bay, healthy, nature, rarities, sewage works

Bird watching – and the extreme version, twitching – can take you to the most interesting places. I would say

Kirstenbosch contour

Dec 11, 2021Dec 11, 2021 eyeonlif 0 Comments beauty, birds, Cape Town, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, hiking, Kirstenbosch, nature

Yesterday’s walk from Constantia Nek to Kirstenbosch is generally regarded as a ‘flat’ walk, but memories are short and the

Protected: A tree full of birds

Dec 6, 2021Dec 6, 2021 eyeonlif birds, Cape Point, kommetjie, nature, rarities, twitching

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Passing penguins

Dec 3, 2021Dec 3, 2021 eyeonlif 0 Comments Boulders, Cape Town, fresh air, healthy, hiking, nature, penguins, Simon's Town

Those of us who enjoyed the excellent Netflix documentary, Penguin Town, documenting the daily lives of family groups in the

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