A solar event, roughly 93 million miles from Earth will have long lasting effects on us in Southern Africa, the Western Cape and in particular the Cape Point Peninsula, if we don't take precautions over the coming months.
The Sun has spewed out billions of tons of radioactive material from its surface in an astrological event called a 'solar flare': think of it as the Sun ...
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Month: February 2011
A Cape Point Landmark in Poor Condition- Slangkop Lighthouse: TLC Required
The wind was howling from the South East, low clouds scudding over the top of the hills, white horses playing out to sea as I approached one of the Cape Peninsula’s most iconic landmarks- Slangkop Lighthouse.
Its hard not to be impressed by this symbol of man’s attempts to tame Cape Point. There are few better experiences of driving around the area than that of coming over t...
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Coastal Protection Zone By-Law: Cape Town Takes A Step In the Right Direction
The city of Cape Town has released a draft proposal for a new by-law, designed to protect what is left of our 230km of coastline from further development, and hopefully save the city some money in the process.
Several developments around the coast cost the city a small fortune to keep maintained, several of them are in the Cape Point Peninsula area (the railway to Simons T...
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Enhance your experience with an RSS feed
Whilst the Cape Point Peninsula may be in sight of the end of the world this is no reason not to keep up with world wide technology. If you visit a lot of information web sites (of which Cape Point Chronicle is one) you may find yourself clicking between a lot of different places on the web. You can let the technology do this work for you by using an RSS feed reader, and taking...
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Hout Bay and the Cape Point Peninsula Internet News Service
I enjoy doing things for Cape Point Chronicle, and I am flattered that anybody actually reads this stuff. So imagine my delight when I received a ping back that an article had been published on another site (with full credit for me of course).
Cape Point Chronicle was never devised to be a news service, I don't have the time or the inclination to make it one- the things on t...
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