Africa in a nutshell: Boyes Drive waterfall

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Boyes Drive waterfall

Taken near the Kalk Bay side of Boyes drive........
Photo taken with SE xperia x10i, with Sony Ericsson's Panorama app.
Cheers and regards
Kingjim

2 comments:

Chrissy Brand said...: Lovely!

Chrissy
http://mancunianwave.blogspot.com/; June 22, 2011 12:37 PM
feelit said...: Ya, totally cool. :); June 26, 2011 6:57 PM

Interesting Muizenberg

- 1742 the Het Posthuys one of the oldest buildings in South Africa was built.
- 1795 The Battle of Muizenberg was a small but significant military affair that began and ended three months later with the (first) British occupation of the Cape.
- In 1882 the railway line, which for twenty years stopped at Wynberg, was extended to Muizenberg.
- 1895 the Muizenberg Municipality was established.
- 1902 Cecil John Rhodes bought as a holiday cottage and this was where he died.
- 1910 the library opened next to the Natale Labia
- 1911 the Muizenberg Post Office opened.
- 1913 a new railway station was built in Muizenberg.
- 1920 Boyes Drive was completed.