south africa – Eye on Life

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Eye on Life

Broad interest online magazine

eyeonlif August 12, 2023August 12, 2023 0 Comments Cape Town, development, flowers, fynbos, growing back, lobostemon, nature, resilience, roads, south africa, traffic

Nature wins!

About 6 years ago, construction began on a new intersection where the 4-way stop existed in Sun Valley/Kommetjie Rd. For

eyeonlif May 31, 2023May 31, 2023 0 Comments adventure, beauty, birds, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Point Nature Reserve, Cape Town, fish, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, nature, ocean, seabirds, seals, sharks, south africa, waves

An early start

A pre-dawn start to the day allows one to savour the magnificence of the Cape Point Nature Reserve in isolation,

eyeonlif April 16, 2023April 16, 2023 0 Comments adventure, beauty, birds, Cape Town, dawn, fresh air, fynbos, Gantouw Pass, healthy, hiking, nature, south africa

Bucket list tick

It is official! If you go looking for birds, you will get plenty of exercise, but sometimes more than you

eyeonlif April 11, 2023April 11, 2023 0 Comments bank, bills, car keys, count your blessings, friends, long walk, Longbeach, lucky, mall, no sardines, retail, shopping, silver lining, south africa, Sun Valley, sunny outlook

Blue Tuesday

Things didn’t go too smoothly today. It was more like a Monday than a Tuesday, and the list of things

eyeonlif February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 Cape Town, heat, kommetjie, loadshedding, south africa, stars, summer, travel, wind

Protected: Some things never change

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eyeonlif January 10, 2023January 10, 2023 birds, Cape Sugarbird, Cape Town, Cape Weaver, Cape White-Eye, feeder, kommetjie, pecking order, pleasure, south africa, sugar water, sunbirds

Protected: Frenzy at the feeder

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My Kommetjie Kitchen

eyeonlif December 3, 2022December 3, 2022 0 Comments Cape Town, clean the fish, delicious, easy to make, kommetjie, pickled fish, south africa, traditional food, yellowtail

Pickled fish

There are few fish better suited to pickling than Yellowtail, which is a firm game fish that can withstand the

eyeonlif October 24, 2022November 10, 2022 0 Comments adventure, animals, big sky, birding, clouds, green veld, Karoo, Karoo National Park, matjiesfontein, on the road again, rain, road trip, scenery, south africa, travel

A Karoo adventure: 2

We chose to leave well before dawn so we could drive into the sunrise and take full advantage of the

eyeonlif October 13, 2022October 13, 2022 adventure, away from it all, birds, buck, desert, Karoo, love to travel, outdoors, rain, road trip, south africa, thorn trees

Protected: A Karoo adventure

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eyeonlif August 23, 2022August 23, 2022 1 Comment beauty, birds, Cape Town, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, hiking, nature, south africa, streams, Table Mountain, tourism

A summer’s day in winter

‘Twas a blistering late winter’s day… Yes! You read that right. Bang in the middle of two cold fronts appears

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