South Africa - Cape Town

[janine]

Here you are Lensbaby...just a few of our holiday snaps...
The first is of Table Mountain taken from Bloubergstrand, Cape Town
The second is of Camps Bay, Cape Town
The third is of the Penquin colony 'farm' in Simonstown, Cape Province
The fourth is another of Table Mountain

Just to give you an idea of the place...i mean, these are not professional shots that have been made nice to sell the place on websites. this is really what its like! It's amazing...

If you do go...promise me you'll go up Table Mountain - ITS AMAZING! It feels as though you are on top of the world!

[coffee]

Wonderful shots. Looks a little warmer there than here right now. Hehe

[Snappers]

Looks a beautiful place

[LensBaby]

WOW Janine that looks beautiful! My husband will not stop talking about it - he really wants to go there this year. Thanks for the photos - they are AWESOME!

[jerryph]

I heard that Cape Town was beautiful... your pictures prove that. Nice shots. :)

[dkippen]

Janine -

These are beautiful. Warm sun, sandy beach. How often do you get there?

[janine]

Janine -

These are beautiful. Warm sun, sandy beach. How often do you get there?

i try every 2 years...but its a far way to go with a small munchkin now...those were taken on our honeymoon, also the last time we were there - 2006

[LensBaby]

Yeah Janine that is a long way to go with a little one. We took our 5 year old to Nevada and she kept asking on the plane "When are we going to be there?", and with a car you can stop and let them get out and walk around, but in a plane well not so much! haha How long have you lived away, and if you don't mind me asking what made you decide to move? If we didn't have children, we would have traveled the world. Not that we still can't, it is just so hard.

[janine]

i have baan living in the uk for going onto my 4th year now...i came over originally on a working holiday - just to broaden my horizons...but then i met my husband and its all down hill from there! hahahaha. no its been great!!!

[ladyups]

Wow..that looks so much warmer than here....makes me really jealous. You photos are great...the color is awesome.

[daltoned]

Hi Janine, some great pics there of Capetown. Just thought I'd share some photo's my Son sent up to us from Fishoek, near Capetown. He tells us that the crickets are harmless but they look fearsome.

EddieD

[LensBaby]

WOW they are very cool looking.

[jerryph]

Insect porn! lol... just kidding. :p

Those are some colourful and mean-looking crickets, and man are those things ever huge! :eek:

I really can appreciate Canadian winters now... we don't have bugs that big (very few bugs at all), and many specieces could never survive our winters, so things like cockroaches and killer bees are nonexistant here... and for that I am eternally grateful. :D

[dkippen]

I honest to God don't know what I'd do if I saw a bug that big!!! Very scary.

[LensBaby]

I will never forget the first time I went to Florida and I saw cockroaches that big and they FLY! UGH (the type that I saw)

[jerryph]

I will never forget the first time I went to Florida and I saw cockroaches that big and they FLY! UGH (the type that I saw)

They do??
Yuck. Ok, so I don't hate winter all that much anymore suddenly. :D

[LensBaby]

Yes they are Asian Cockroaches and they live in the panhandle area of Florida. (I was in Ft. Walton Beach/Destin area)but now they have moved to other areas! See I told you everyday on here is a new learning experience for us!


The Asian Cockroach is well established in Central Florida; it has been reported in Pensacola and other areas of the Florida Panhandle as well as in East Central Georgia. This roach is easily confused with the German Cockroach; most professionals cannot distinguish one from the other unless found alive, while observing the roach behavior and habitat. The Asian roach is a good flyer and is attracted to homes at night, flying towards light. At dusk, the Asian roach becomes very active and adults are attracted to light reflected off light-colored walls, doorways and windows. This roach is capable of sustained fly for a distance of 150 feet. They then actively try to enter the home where they rest on lighted walls. When light are turned off (as residents of the home leave a room,) the cockroaches will follow to the next lighted room. Thus, many residents believe that these roaches are attacking them -- but they are not.The Asian cockroach was identified as a newly introduced species in 1986, when a heavy infestation was found in Lakeland, Florida (Polk County). A second, more heavily infested area was identified in 1987 near Brandon and Tampa (Hillsborough County). Today, the Asian cockroach has spread to infest the southeastern United States.