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goodbye to africa

nobody@vox.com(Tintenfisch) — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:49:20 +1200

i have left cape town. greetings from the airport in johannesburg, where i am waiting to board a plane that i will be sitting in for the next 18 hours - we fly via senegal, but i don't think we'll have time to get out and walk around. i hear t...

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two oceans aquarium

nobody@vox.com(Tintenfisch) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:11:09 +1200

here are some shots from two oceans aquarium, which boasts one of two 'captive' living kelp forests in the world, some nice sharks and turtles, and the biggest morays i have ever seen.

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castle of good hope

nobody@vox.com(Tintenfisch) — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:15:39 +1200

(31 may) yesterday afternoon i visited the castle of good hope, the oldest building in south africa and its military seat. the castle is pentagonal and used to sit on the seashore (the dungeon floor was made of wet sand), until a large amount of ...

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on table mountain

nobody@vox.com(Tintenfisch) — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:02:48 +1200

on monday evening after work, we went up the cableway to the top of table mountain to have a look around. this is what we looked around at. :)

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one for the pebbles

nobody@vox.com(Tintenfisch) — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:21:57 +1200

(30 may) the squirrels in the company's gardens are apparently famous. my guidebook says 'the squirrels that scamper here were imported to cape town from north america by cecil john rhodes, whose statue stands in the centre of the gardens.' i c...

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a note on the following backlog

nobody@vox.com(Tintenfisch) — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:51:04 +1200

it's been nearly a week since i had the chance to post, so the posts below will separately detail a few of the interesting things i've done in the meantime. i have a few more days' worth of work at the museum this week, but will also be taking in...

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bycatch!

nobody@vox.com(Tintenfisch) — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:44:25 +1200

(28 may) the museum received some fresh specimens last week (from a research cruise, actually, so 'bycatch' is inaccurate but fit in with the b-themed titles), including 14 species of cephalopod! so i got the chance to have the first look at them...

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boats!

nobody@vox.com(Tintenfisch) — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:42:36 +1200

(27 may, from my journal) after sitting in anthills twice, i think i have finally found a safe place to write from. thank goodness there are no fire ants in south africa! it is a beautiful day and we are at what bugs calls 'the dam,' a man-made...

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bugs!

nobody@vox.com(Tintenfisch) — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:39:46 +1200

(26 may) on the way out of town for the weekend, we stopped off at butterfly world, an indoor garden where 400-600 butterfly chrysalises (imported from tropical breeders) are hatched every week and allowed to roam free. it was early morning and o...

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bushes!

nobody@vox.com(Tintenfisch) — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:31:50 +1200

(25 may) over lunch, bugs took me to kirstenbosch, the national botanical gardens. the weather has turned lovely and we spent a few hours walking around in the sun, admiring ficus, cycads, flowering aloes, waterberries, ferns and native fynbos of...

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