Year in the Wild Blog


Posts with tag Silvermine

Silvery morning at Silvermine on Table Mountain

By Scott in General,Parks | 1 Comment

Woke up this Monday morning at Silvermine to a classic winter’s “sunny” day in Cape Town. No clouds, cold and crisp. After a cold night, I managed to wake up in time (!) for the sunrise at about quarter to eight, and I climbed to the ridge above the tented camp. As I got there, the sun was creeping up over the Hottentots Holland mountains. To my right was False Bay, and to my left was the back side of Table Mountain and Constantiaberg. In front of me lay the southern suburbs of Cape Town,
Read more »

First official night of Year in the Wild!

By Scott in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Last night was the first night of Year in the Wild! I spent it at the beautifully-built and conceived Silvermine Tented Camp on top of Table Mountain. It was a cold, clear night, with a moon rising above the city of Cape Town. Even though we are in the middle of one of South Africa's biggest cities, we could hardly hear the city below. Instead, the only sounds that broke the silence were frogs, crickets (I think they were crickets?) and the odd brave francolin which called out during the
Read more »