As promised, this time I will look at things that you can do outside the home to reduce the likelihood of a Baboon troop wrecking your garden.
First of all you need to realize why the baboons are visiting your garden. They are primarily looking for food, and it is a good time to raise an often over looked issue here: the food source may not be in your property, it may be in ...
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Month: September 2010
Seals In Kalk Bay Harbour
For as long as I have been in the area there have been seals in Kalk Bay Harbour. I cannot remember ever going there and there not being at least one seal cavorting around the moored boats, taking advantage of the fishermen’s waste.
In the past, since there have been such low numbers I always assumed that the seals were either old hands looking for a free meal, sick anim...
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Football World Cup- Is there a real legacy?
Being that it was a stunning Saturday morning and I had my delightful daughter to entertain I decided to take her on her tricycle down to Fish Hoek sports field for a trundle around.
Whilst down there we stopped for a while to watch a junior football game which was taking place on the bottom pitch, in the corner nearest the baseball club. I managed to work out from the paren...
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Be Water-wise: Quick Tip to save water when flushing your toilet, or how the house brick can save the planet!
Further to my post about the possible effects of La Nina I am pleased to see that we have indeed had an increase in rain fall. Whether this will be enough to get us to full capacity before the dry summer begins only time will tell.
Whatever happens to the dam levels we are still going to be in for a rough time with regards to water since demand is putting an increasing press...
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Main Road: Upgrade?
I was coming back from Epping last week down the Prince George Drive and decided, since it was a nice day and didn’t mind sitting at the lights, to come home via Kalk Bay (as luck would have it the lights were green and I went straight through).
This isn’t the first time that I have driven down Main Road since the first section near Muizenburg has been finished, but for some...
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Jupiter Returns to the Cape Point Evenings
For the first time in a while the skies are relatively clear tonight and I noticed that Jupiter has returned to our late evening skies. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and many believe that it is a failed star. It has all the elements in it to make a star, it just falls short of creating enough pressure to cause a chain reaction as in the Sun.
Jupiter is a ga...
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