My Africa

“Perhaps it was history that ordained that it be here, at the Cape of Good Hope that we should lay the foundation stone of our new nation. For it was here at this Cape, over three centuries ago, that there began the fateful convergence of the peoples of Africa, Europe and Asia on these shores.”
   -   Nelson Mandela

3 Centuries of selling flowers   -  Adderley Street

… and of catching fish - although I never was that lucky  (or skillful)      -   Hermanus

Looking out of my bedroom window, I often saw an albino squirrel collecting acorns.

I remember my mother giving me a penny for every ten snails that we picked from her garden.  After an hour we were ‘rich’ with a penny in each hand

‘Cape of Storms’?  Perhaps.
‘Cape of Good Hope’  Perhaps.
​Cape of extreme beauty?  Definitely

A beautiful beast …. or biltong on the hoof?

And this idiot could well have been one of my old school mates.

Where I first learned to swim - St James

Swimming was not the only lesson that I learned

Hope for the future?

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Tavern of the Seas

Rainbow Nation

Land of Contrasts

Cape Town, Now and Then

Africa