Stunning aerial shot of Cape Town

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Stunning aerial shot of Cape Town

#1 Post by Capetonian » Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:44 am

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Taken on Wednesday (sadly, not by me!

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Re: Stunning aerial shot of Cape Town

#2 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:59 pm

Cracking one Cape.
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#3 Post by Smeagol » Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:13 pm

I have an aerial photo of Cape Town, in my dining room, taken from about 5,000 feet in 1927. I have dated it from the details, the lower cableway station is visible but the upper not and it was completed in 1928. I paid ZAR 1 for it in 1976 in an auction in Wynberg. Think it might be worth a bit more now. Flash photo of it below which is rather poor I'm afraid.
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#4 Post by Woody » Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:29 pm

Capetonian will you please stop encouraging people to visit the Mother City,it’s hard enough to use staff travel to get there and back :((

Especially as it’s over 19R to the pound :D
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#5 Post by Capetonian » Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:04 am

In my view CPT is over-touristed and under resourced and whilst I appreciate that tourism brings much needed income to a lot of people, the locals are suffering from high prices, traffic, pollution, lack of availability of hotel rooms, reasonably priced restaurants, and a lot more. Cheap air fares and AirBnB have a lot to answer for.

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Re: Stunning aerial shot of Cape Town

#6 Post by Woody » Sun Mar 17, 2019 11:44 am

Capetonian wrote:
Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:04 am
In my view CPT is over-touristed and under resourced and whilst I appreciate that tourism brings much needed income to a lot of people, the locals are suffering from high prices, traffic, pollution, lack of availability of hotel rooms, reasonably priced restaurants, and a lot more. Cheap air fares and AirBnB have a lot to answer for.
I was impressed by the amount of locals that I spoke to last month who wanted to know about Brexit, especially when you consider the problems facing ZA, don’t think that my answer of “ f***ed if I know “ was very helpful :D

Ps Eskom doing Level 4 load shedding today X(
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#7 Post by Capetonian » Sun Mar 17, 2019 2:01 pm

don’t think that my answer of “ f***ed if I know “ was very helpful
Whereas unlike the answers provided by the politicians, it is brief, honest, and to the point.

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