Simon's Town, Table Bay
ref. # 186d 2014 travel journal - Aernout Smit 'Table Bay', 1683
Aernout Smit Table Bay, 1683©: William Fehr Collection, Cape Town
tags: #Aernout Smit #Table Bay, #Cape Town
186e 2014 travel journal - view on Fish Hook from the metro
view on Simon's Town©: Robert Schilder 2014
tags: #Fish Hook #South Africa
186f 2014 travel journal - preparing the GEMINI
preparing sy-GEMINI, False Bay Yacht Club, Simon's Town©: Robert Schilder 2014
tags: #False Bay Yacht Club #Simon's Town #South africa
186g 2014 travel journal - Simon's Town, False Bay Yacht Club
Marina of False Bay Yacht Club©: Robert Schilder 2014
, , tags: #False Bay Yacht Club #Simon's Town
187 2014 travel journal -Simon´s Town
Simon's Town (Afrikaans: Simonstad), sometimes spelled Simonstown, is a town near Cape Town, South Africa, which is home to the South African Navy. It is located on the shores of False Bay, on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula. For more than two centuries it has been an important naval base and harbour (first for the Royal Navy and now the South African Navy). The town is named after Simon van der Stel, an early governor of the Cape Colony. Wikipedia©: Robert Schilder 2014
, tags: #Simon's Town #South Africa
188 2014 travel journal -(tryptich) ´Boulders Bay´
Boulders Beach is located a few kilometres to the south of Simon´s Town, in the direction of Miller's Point. Here small coves with white sandy beaches and calm shallow water are interspersed between boulders of Cape granite. There has been a colony of African penguins at Boulders Beach since 1985. There is no record of the birds having lived here prior to that date, so their decision to settle in an area already well-utilized by humans is remarkable. There are only three penguin populations on the mainland in southern Africa; the others are close to Hermanus at Stoney Point and Betty's Bay.©: Robert Schilder 2014 pfs0308
tags: #Boulders Bay #South Africa #Simons Town
189 2014 travel journal -'Obsidian'
link: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian©: Robert Schilder 2014
tags: #obsidian #South Africa
189a 2014 travel journal -Obsidian
Studio Drift ´the Obsidian Project´ Part II (2015)Using ancient alchemical methods, Studio Drift obtains ´synthetic obsidian´from chemical waste. This black paramagnetic stony glass has very specific properties including light absortion which transforms the refectic environment into a spectacle that relaxes the eyes and reflects the reality of the world back at us.
"One of the weirdest discoveries that we´ve made was that the material sounded like metal, looked like glass and felt like stone." The first result in this research is a sculpture with reflective qualities. The Aztecs used natural obsidian to make mirrors and they believed that these black mirrors were the gateway to the spiritual world. As now our spirit reflects in our own chemical waste".
link: www.studiodrift.com
©: photo Robert Schilder (2015) Dutch Design Week in van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
tags: #Studio Drift #obsidian #South Africa
190 2014 travel journal -sy GEMINI rounding Cape of Good Hope
©: Robert Schilder 2014, www.sy-gemini.nltags: #Cape of Good Hope #sy-Gemini
