Latest photos of Urban Park and the view to the Cape Town Stadium

I am going abroad
 on holidays

I must say it will be very strange after non stop posting since day one I shall miss it !

Expect the next post on January 30
Until then !

This is the view you will have from the "tea room"

and these are the foundations of the tea room

 it looks like the terrace will be right up to the edge of the water

See below

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You get a better idea from this photo

I can clearly see my home on Signal Hill

Cape Town Rugby Festival on February 6 at 4.15 PM in this gorgeous glowing Stadium

Unfortunately I am not able to be at the Soccer Festival

 but I bought my ticket for the Cape Town Rugby Festival  at the Cape Town Stadium today and choose my seat with great care ! Believe it or not but I have never been inside any stadium

This will be my first ever !

You can buy your tickets here

Just read that the Castle Lager Cape Town Tens will join CT Stadium Rugby Festival as well

as the friendly match between our local teams: Boland Inv. XV vs Stormers.

and there is live entertainment by Flat Stanley and others

 Read on

This is the water course which seperates the golf course from the urban park

it is connected by narrow canals to the other water features

BTW there was no cleaning going on today (friday)
So I am still looking at a half cleaned facade

Hosing down the 27.000 m² facade of the Cape Town Stadium for the upcoming Soccer Festival

You can clearly see the big difference This is how far they got today

If you are curious as how it looks inside the 

Cape Town Stadium in Green Point then look here

Soccer Festifal 23 January 2010

Tickets are available from Computicket and cost between R30 and R50. Parking tickets, of which there are 3 000 for sale, are priced at R20, and are only available from Computicket. Fans will not be able to buy match tickets or parking tickets at the stadium on the day.

 Free shuttle service from the Civic Centre in Hertzog Boulevard to the stadium and back. To use this facility, all fans need do is present their match tickets.
Tickets here
The schedule for the day is:

14:00 Gates open

Roving podium entertainment

15:20 Official blessing of the field and opening of the stadium

15:30 Musical performance by Freshly Ground

16:00 Ajax Cape Town vs Santos game 1st half

16:45 Vuvuzela orchestra performance

17:00 Ajax Cape Town vs Santos game 2nd half

17:45 Final whistle

17:55 Official trophy ceremony

19:00 Gates close

Even at night you notice the difference !

Red and stripy Green Point lighthouse and a white Cape Town Stadium

Green Point Light house

Beach Road, from Mouille Point

A drive to Kalk Bay then via Chapmans Peak back to Green Point

Was sight seeing today with friends who are visiting South Africa

A fantastic view toward Kalk Bay

 Boyes Drive (from where this pic is taken) offers some of the best scenery in Cape Town.

Kalk Bay

is a fishing village on the coast of False Bay it is a suburb of greater Cape Town.

Kalk Bay has a buzzing fish market on the harbour

where you can watch the fishermen in traditional wooden boats bringing in their catch

like kingklip, john dory, bream, and dorado

Chapmans Peak Drive

 View of Hout Bay from

Chapmans Peak Drive, named after John Chapman who came to Cape Town in 1607. He was the mate on a British ship that was sent to Hout Bay to investigate the possibility of building a harbour there.

It's a really spectacular drive along a very narrow road with stunning views out onto the Atlantic ocean.

This road links Noordhoek to Hout Bay and Cape Town.

It was in the Foodbarn in Noordhoek where we had a great lunch

and even though it was Teusday the place was packed

but I had booked a week ago so that was ok

Tonight

Night shot Canon EOS 450D + EFS 17-85mm lens,2010 World Cup Stadium in Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa

This evening: Sea fog rolling in

This is not the most beautiful angle of the Cape Town Stadium but that is my opinion ofcourse ...

It looks grey after the sun has set and the basket shape ..

Nope this sight doesn't set my heart on fire :(

If you look at this photo thenyou will see where I was standing here

They haven't switched on those green lights for a long time.... which would have bathed this paving in green light

The road to the World Cup 2010 Cape Town Stadium

The beautiful PTFE-coated silver mesh glass fabric (Hightex) lit up at night

Main Entrance

A sight for sore eyes ! Cape Town Stadium and the cloth on Table Mountain during sunset !

No better and no more beautiful place than Cape Town !

Why is it... that when guys see me shooting  they always feel the need to jump in front of my camera and clown around posing while I have never seen a girl do this !

I have quite a few pix of these clowns :) maybe I should start posting them !

Do click this and see it large ...

I learned from flickr that people tastes differ wildly

For example I know that some of you will find there are too many cars in this shot

 but I actually like it and besides there was not much option to leave them out

the only other option was the shot example above this one

Yep I was at the Radisson Hotel  again

 it was packed ofcourse its the place to watch the sunset and eachother :)

and to Daniel who asked me if I have any shots of the "closed roof"

The roof is open in the middle it means that the players will get a shower if it rains

You see ...
 We have thought of everything :)

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Work on the facade of the Cape town Stadium . January 7 2010

They were busy working on the facade with up to 7 cherry pickers

but no work on the 2 gaps

Camps Bay from Glen beach

I was in Camps Bay earlier this evening

 unfortunately there was a sea mist all along the coast but still very beautiful and warm

There is a hole in my new Cape Town Stadium Dear Lisa !

So I checked the photos I took when they had ripped the facade

and they are replacing this one which was ripped (Sept 21 2009)

they patched it up but are obviously not happy with it

A peek inside the grass looks nice and green

If you are still looking to buy tickets for a match in this stadium

Try this:  website

Green grass of home

I was in Camps Bay today and the beaches are still packed

Its been very hot lately

The sprinklers seem to be going the whole day

Just showing you what I got ...today..

The other hole

My work station Cheers :)

Deja vu ? Work on the facade of the Cape Town Stadium and half a strip of facade is missing on the East side

There was a lone cherry picker at work yesterday but that was increased  to three today

and when I drove to the movies this evening I couldn't believe my eyes but there is half a strip of PVC membrane missing again on the East side I have had  no time to check it out

up close

There hasn't been anything happening on the Urban Park for a long time

and the belt of trees they planted are a joke

it will be a long long time before they will give some shade

Cape Town Stadium January 2010

I never shoot people if I can help it, but I had just set up my camera on very uneven ground and scrub wood fiddling with the spirit levels on my tripod then when I looked through the view finder I saw a plastic coffee cup in my frame, so I walked over and removed it, by the  time I returned to my camera, this couple had walked into my frame and I was waiting for ages for them to move and while I waited I took some shots out of boredom What do you think ? I quite like it actually

If this is you or if you know this couple then contact me

capetown_sa@yahoo.co.uk

and I will send you the photos

The road leading from the sea is the Fritz Sonnenberg Road

and it is where I stood at the corner of the stadium podium

when I took this shot