Fish out of water

Colourful fish leaping, beaded lizards glinting, metal lynxes skulking, beautiful flowers blooming, Khoi matjiehuise mushrooming and storyboards revealing bite-size fascinating facts about Cape Town's biodiversity - this is Cape Town's newest and most entertaining park in Green Point, just near the stadium. To find out more about it visit the site of the latest issue of Environmental Management magazine - which is available to all for free if you register on their website.

Beautiful Day

Today's weather is clear and breezy - but looking good for the U2 concert tonight in the Cape Town Stadium in Green Point, seen shimmering here in the morning sun from Green Point Park. There has been a fair amount of controversy over this concert after some sensationalist reporting of Bono's comments (taken completely out of context) and some tweetings of a silly little local rightwing idiotic blonde (of course) singer. Read a balanced take on it here.

Green spaces

Cape Town has an exciting new urban park - Green Point Park - a creatively landscaped "peoples park" that includes walkways, open spaces and biodiversity gardens in the centre of the city adjacent to the Metropolitan Golf Course and to the new Cape Town Stadium. Go there to relax on the lawns or have a picnic at the shaded tables and benches, be entertained by the metal and wire animals that are part of the landscape and be fascinated by the interesting interpretation labels.
Or just go there to see the Belle Monde and their dogs go by - from their upmarket apartments on the beachfront at Mouille Point to the gym and coffee shops of Green Point. Entrance is free and it is patrolled by a pair of red-hatted City of Cape Town officials so it is quite safe.
(You will see that the slopes of Signal Hill are looking a bit blackened from a very recent fire that raged there two days ago.)