GOOD FENCES

The Centenary Tree Canopy Walkway is a new curved steel and timber bridge that winds and dips its way through and over the trees of the Arboretum. Inspired by a snake skeleton, and informally called ‘The Boomslang‘ (meaning tree snake), it is a low-maintenance, low-impact sculptural raised walkway.

The Walkway takes the visitor from the forest floor into and through the trees and bursts out above the canopy, giving spectacular panoramic vistas of the surrounding mountains, Garden and Cape Flats.

This walkway is 130 m long, narrow and slender, with a few wider view-point areas, and lightly snakes its way through the canopy, in a discreet, almost invisible way. The walkway is crescent-shaped and takes advantage of the sloping ground; it touches the forest floor in two places, and raises visitors to 12 m above ground. It is more than just a traditional boardwalk – like a snake, it winds and dips

The Centenary Tree Canopy Walkway was built in 2013-14 to celebrate the centenary of Kirstenbosch Gardens in 2013, and opened to the public on 17 May 2014.

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Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, South Africa

Now while walking around the Kirstenbosch Gardens we saw this tree called the Wood Cyad which is the only one individual male tree that shares the exact same genes as the original wild tree which is extinct now and even though throughout the world there are 500 plants, all of them come from basal suckers or offsets from the original clump discovered by John Medley Wood but none have got the wild gene.

The Kirstenbosch specimen is a sucker from one of the Durban Botanic Garden plants, and was planted in Kirstenbosch in 1916. More interesting information can be found HERE.   The other images are of other parts of the garden

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

While we were visiting the Kirkenborsh Gardens in South Africa I spied these Cape Spurfowl feeding on the lawn.

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THROUGH MY LENS

These enormous Dinosaurs were spotted in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, South Africa when we visited it in December 2018

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SUNDAY THOUGHT

He makes me lie down in green pastures,

he leads me beside quiet waters.

Psalm 23:2

Photographed in South Africa.

Have a Blessed Sunday.

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SATURDAY CRITTERS

Once again I photographed these African Penguins when we stopped at a small beach on our way home. 

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Time for The Weekend Roundup and Weekend Reflections and today’s letter is H and Half.  These young men are in a HUDDLE and all the photographs were taken when we visited the Kirstenbosch Gardens and they wee surrounded by HIGH mountains.  Then we have Annika showing us HER HEELS and HEAD of beautiful red HAIR

These are Egyptian Geese, the first one is HIDING HIS HEAD under the water and the left HAND one is HIDING behind the HIGH grasses and this is also my REFLECTION image.  This is followed by a HADEDA Ibis.

Below I finish this post with HALF a pint of a smoothie I made myself for breakfast to curb my HUNGER.

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GOOD FENCES

This is a fabulous high walkway n this garden that we visited while I was in South Africa and it as for obvious reasons have a fence.

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South Africa

Last Wednesday I showed you a young of this species but this is an adult bird called Kelp Gull.  The other bird is a Hartlaub’s Gull.  On the island were white-breasted Cormorant.

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

Once again I photographed these African Penguins when we stopped at a small beach on our way home. 

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THROUGH MY LENS

Last Wednesday I showed you African Penguins and these are some more I photographed.

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I have my laptop back again. I felt I had lost my right arm!
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