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Party Town: Make-Overs, The Future Primitives, The Dollfins & Black Lung at Carnival Court

Posted on: June 30, 2013

Saturday 29 June 2013 Saturday was a night of intense energy and sweaty claustrophobia courtesy of 3 of Cape Town’s power trios, The Future Primitives, The Dollfins and Black Lung as well as probably the loudest duo in the country, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged black lung, cape town, carnival court, favourites, future primitives, gigs & festivals, guitars, long hair, long street, loud, make overs, mosh pit, moshpit, photography, rock, singing drummers, south africa, south african, stage diving, the dollfins, weekends

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Fox Comet ‘Blazing Trails & Fiery Tales’ Album launch, with Al Bairre and Grassy Spark at Zula

Posted on: June 3, 2013

Saturday 1 June 2013 There had been warnings all week that a huge storm was to hit Cape Town on the first weekend of June, and the warnings had been right. The rain was almost relentless and Saturday was was … Continue reading →

Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged al bairre, album launch, brass, cape town, captain stu, favourites, fox comet, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, indie, jumping musicians, launch, long hair, long street, music, photography, rock, saxophone, ska, south africa, south african, weekends, winter, zula

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Dutch tall ships at the Waterfront

Posted on: May 27, 2013

12 & 14 May 2013 Following pretty closely after last month’s Russian Sedov, two weeks ago the V&A Waterfront docks were graced by 3 more tall ships, this time Dutch – the Tecla, Europa and Oosterschelde. We checked them out on Mother’s Day … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography
Tagged 3 anchor bay, cape town, dutch, europa, events, greenpoint, harbour, international, ixus, ocean, oosterschelde, outdoors, photography, point and shoot, sail, sailing, sea, sea point, ship, sky, south african, tall ship, tecla, the tallest man on earth, v&a, water, waterfront, winter, winter days

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Little yellow butterflies

Posted on: May 11, 2013

Friday 10 May 2013 These little guys seem to be all over Cape Town at the moment, I think they’re called Common Dotted Border Butterflies. They’re very sweet :)

Posted in Birds & Animals, Photography
Tagged autumn, butterfly, cape town, close up, common dotted border, garden, insects, macro, nature, outdoors, outside, photography, south africa, south african, winter

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Daytrip to Betty’s Bay

Posted on: May 10, 2013

Tuesday 7 March 2013 Celebrating my recently-obtained freedom and joining a Joburg friend sight-seeing were good enough excuses for a little daytrip along False Bay to Betty’s Bay on Tuesday.