FREE | GRATIS the www.pinelandsdirectory.co.za PINELANDS COMMUNITY MAGAZINE musISSUEe 54 | Aug 2015 WIN MEALS FOR A MONTH SPRINGBOK EXPERIENCE TICKETS SPECIAL FEATURE WINTER HEALTH AND BEAUTY TARYN LOCK & ATHOL WILLIAMS READ TO RISE CO-FOUNDERS MOROCCAN Heleen Community CHEETAH Out and VANCOUVER TAGINE Meyer Travellers OUTREACH About DINNER GENIE HOME DELIVERY We cook so you don’t have to! You are really busy - right? Rather use your precious time for more important things and avoid wasting it with running around supermarkets, preparing, cooking and cleaning up. MEAL OPTIONS EACH DAY INCLUDE: • Hearty Fare • Healthy Diet WIN • Banting / Paleo Diet • Roast Dinners FOOD FOR • Freezer Meals A MONTH Discounts apply to weekly, for a family of four monthly and volume orders. MENUS AND ORDERS ENTER ONLINE ON OUR WEBSITE Online www.dinner-genie.co.za www.dinner-genie.co.za Email [email protected] Entries close on 28 August 2015. Winner will be announced on our Call 0861 DINNER website on 31 August 2015. 0861 346637 DINNER GENIE CAFÉ Sunrise Business Park • Sunrise Circle, Ndabeni August Special Bottomless Capuccino R30 DinnerGenie-IFC-054.indd 1 21/07/2015 4:35 PM WELCOME About the cover: Dwindling cheetah habitat and the killing of cheetah by humans has driven this magnificent cat to the brink of extinction. See the article on Cheetah Outreach on page 9. The cheetah is the fastest land animal and can run as fast as 120km per hour. They have a slender body with a tan coat covered with approximately 2 000 small round black spots. The head is small with the distinctive black "tear marks" running from the corner of the eyes down the sides of the nose to the mouth – these are thought to protect the eyes from bright sunlight and thus aid in the hunting process. Above: Black-browed Albatross WINTER PURSUITS PELAGIC BIRDS With Winter well and truly set in, we are at last getting some rain to fill the depleted dams Winter is the best time to see albatrosses. for the long summer season ahead. Hopefully, we will not face water rationing on top of They move northwards from the even electricity outages in the dry months ahead. So, while we endure our water from the skies, colder conditions of the subantarctic the deluge of leaves shed from our trees and plummeting temperatures, take heart from regions, and often travel half-way around the fact the daylight hours are now starting to become a little longer each day. the entire globe to reach the seas off Cape Town. They never come to land, but The winter coughs, colds and flu seem to have been particularly widespread and nasty albatrosses can be seen during winter this season with many people remarking how long it took to get over them. With this in storms by scanning offshore from places mind, read some sound advice from our local doctors and therapists about how to avoid such as Kommetjie with strong binoculars. and deal with these unwelcome invaders in our Winter Health and Beauty feature inside. The most rewarding way to see them As you will read in our Out and About on page 9, we recently spent a day at the Cheetah is to join a "pelagic" trip, a day trip in a Outreach in Somerset West. This facility was previously located at Spier Wine Estate before boat in search of offshore trawlers where it moved to larger surroundings at Paardevlei, which was the AECI / Somchem explosives thousands of seabirds congregate and factory – that large fenced-off area with the ominous guard towers beside the N2 just can be seen from just a few metres away. before Somerset West. Since the complex closed down the whole area has opened up See www.capetownpelagics.com again and we were surprised by the many positive developments to rehabilitate and develop the land and put it to good public use. Within a couple of years I think it could be Text: an attractive and welcome addition to Cape Town's recreational options. A good model Dr Callan Cohen, perhaps, for what could be done with the Oude Molen site with some official backing and research associate at recognition and the resultant private investment and enterprise which follows? the UCT FitzPatrick Here's wishing you a warm and healthy winter season. Institute of African Ornithology,bird I hope you enjoy this edition! book author and director of Birding Africa Max Schutte tours: www.birdingafrica.com. Photo: Mike Buckham. 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