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The Beautiful Cape

The Beautiful Cape

June 16, 2012
by Otto Whitehead

Peeling waves.

Paradisical beaches.

Kelp forest splashes.

Rock pool ramblings.

Fynbos frolicks.

Mountain ambles.

Wilderness, right on my doorstep.

False Bay mountains

African penguins, Dassen Island

Dassen Island paradise

Amaryllis spp., Cape Point Reserve

View of cooking Kalk Bay from the top of Echo Valley

Swift Tern, Dassen Island

Bontebok, Cape Point Reserve

Rain drop on a nasturtium leaf, Muizenberg

Egyptian geese, Cape Point Reserve

Unknown caterpillar, Muizenberg

Intricate macroscape of an old protea trunk, Echo Valley

A fly lapping up some sweetness from a nodule on a Leucadendron spp. leaf, Red Hill

Eland, Cape Point Reserve

Unknown ant pollinating Erica glandulosa, Echo Valley

March Lily, Dassen Island

Aloe branch, Muizenberg

tagged with Bontebok, Cape Town, South Africa, african penguin, bee, caterpillar, egyptian geese, eland, flower, macro, swift tern

For those of you who haven’t met this human, his name is Steve, the founder and frother of @animal_ocean.

Steve is one of the most passionate and warm-hearted people I know, forever sharing inspiring stories about the natural world, whether ab

The south-western tip of Africa 🌍 high up on Swartkop peak we came across a beautiful memoir set in granite:

When night closes in and shadows lengthen
along the boulder-strewn shore

And high above the full moon
reflects on the starlit sea

Then de

Happy #worldalbatrossday 🥳

There are 22 albatross species and they occur from the tropics all the way to the poles.

This wandering albatross on @marionisland is incubating her egg, however, the chick will be hatching into a very uncertain world.

Stories from Nightingale and other islands.

Tomorrow evening I’ll be chatting with @mike.raimondo from @green.renaissance about albatrosses, penguins, thrushes and other curious creatures from islands all over this wonderful planet 🌍 a few of

It’s always great finding new gems!

Yesterday @mermaid.lauren92 and I hiked up to Swartkop Peak above Simon’s Town. Two and a half years ago this mountain was engulfed by flames and now there is some really healthy fynbos sprouting up!

This is the spirit of the Onderbek who sent us a special book filled with stories we’d like to share with YOU!

Onderbek means ‘under-mouth’ in Afrikaans and was first heard when @belowtheflow and I drove out to the Oorlogskloof to

I listened to a @ted podcast the other day that reminded me of just how lucky we are to be alive.

You know all those dinosaurs that once roamed the planet? Well, their extinction paved the way for the evolution of early mammals by opening up a massi

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