Wet in Cape Town ...

It's freezing and very wet in Cape Town.

This post interrupts the posts of our recent trip to the USA but here are a few pics of the swollen Nursery and Skeleton streams flowing through Kirstenbosch this evening.

It's been pouring all day so Gigi and I could not resist the temptation to take a short walk in and above the garden after work. Very dramatic. Water was just pouring off the mountain. Window ravine particularly was just a welter of spray.

Surprisingly enough there was a short break in the rain that allowed me to get home on the motorcycle completely dry and for us to take a walk without getting wet. Fate clearly smiles on those who reduce their carbon emissions by using a motorcycle in winter in Cape Town! But since we have been home it has started to rain intermittently and the temperature has dropped dramatically.


Here is Skeleton Stream flowing under the bridge just below the Kirstenbosch Tea Room.












Here is the confluence of Skeleton Stream flowing from the right and Nursery Stream from under the trees, centre left











Here is the footbridge over Nursery Stream just above the high level road above the cultivated section of Kirstenbosch garden

The water is pouring right over the top of the footbridge in places








A closer view of the stream flowing right over the footbridge












And by flash - freezing the flow of the water













And here is Nursery Stream flowing over the high level road and cascading down into the rocky bed again











Lastly as we turned to walk back down, is a view from the top of the garden out over the southern suburbs of Cape Town

The ridge on the right is Bishopscourt

The tree is the top of an indigenous silver tree