Grass on the Urban Park in Green Point and the Stadium at night

The started laying grass yesterday and I saw sprinklers going for the first time

Up till now they watered the trees by hand

The Castle Cape Town Tens party is in full swing tonight

February 4

World Cup 2010 Cape Town Stadium Dec 8, the facade is now complete and the Urban Park

All done !

At Dec 8 around 8 AM it was done ... all the PVC Facade sheets are now attached

ofcourse there is still allot of stretching and tuning to do

An hour later ..Note the new belt of trees on the left in the "Urban Park"
They still have allot of growing to do !

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The Green Point Common images are a  special request
 from my avid blog follower in Madeira 

who used to live along the Beach Road until mid 2008
Allot has changed since then ...

The way it is 2009

The way it was in 2007

Quite gorgeous really...if the facade sheets would be only be clean....
 It rained yesterday
but it didn't clean the sheets unfortunately

I went up Signal Hill today
They were testing the sound system I could hear it at the top of the hill !
It was awesome !
Pretty peed off since I didnt have my other camera with me with the video or I would have video-ed it !

The image bove shows the
Royal Cape Yacht Club, bottom right

Urban Park taking shape..

Ok I shall save some images I took from the top of Signal Hill

 for tomorrow's post

And at t 8.15 PP suddenly all the lights went out ..this has happened  before and I read it costs an awful amount of money to switch them all on again...
Here they had just switched them on again

The Urban Park of the Green Point Common is still a mess

The West side of the Green Point Common is where the new Urban Park is going to be, but right now its just one mud bath Imagine trying to navigate there after dark like I did last night !
This part of the Common looks the most unfinished the East side where the Golf course is looks already fabulous and green Its such an improvement from the brown look of the old Green Point Common !

I know that butyl liners have a limited lifeline so I was surprised to see they aren't using cement but I must admit this one is very THICK as you can see here
The water is still from the heavy rains we had it a week ago, it must be so difficult to work under those circumstances
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Compare this water feature with the 10 story building behind it and you get an idea of the size !