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Apr 11, 2025

Wingsuit Flights From Table Mountain To Camps Bay

Johannes Klauser and Mathias Neuherz are Austrian BASE jumpers who recently published a wingsuit flight from Table Mountain to Camps Bay beach. If you live in Cape Town, you'll know these scenes well. Two videos were made, one from their point-of-view and another zoomed in from the top of Table Mountain. Mathias said in his video description, "We had to fly a really high glide ratio to make it to beach. I haven't been so nervous before a jump for a while." They did two other wingsuit jumps off Table Mountain, a sunset flight to Camps Bay and another towards Cape Town.

POV:

Outside View:

Sunset Flight:

Table Mountain towards Cape Town's CBD:

Nov 24, 2019

Franschhoek Wine Tram

As locals, it was lekker to experience the Wine Tram in Franschhoek on our minibreak. Along the way we visited Rickety Bridge, Moreson, Eikehof, Paserene and Le Lude the next day. We love Franschhoek, go there often and really enjoyed our first wine tram, bus and tractor rides.

Our route: https://winetram.co.za/pink-line-4-2

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Nov 25, 2017

Epic Paragliding Video - Cape Town Scenes

A beautifully crafted video that includes some local scenery in Cape Town. Incredibly skilled paragliding pilot, Jean-Baptiste Chandelier shows low flying maneuvers and amazing scenery.

Sep 27, 2016

My Time-Lapse Compilation Video in HD

I've captured many time-lapse videos on my GoPro Hero 4 since buying it earlier this year and have become a bit obsessed with time-lapse videos. I've experimented a lot with the several settings in search of the best way to capture and edit these files in a manageable way without having the fastest computer at hand. Although the GoPro Hero 4 Silver comes with both image and video time-lapse options available, I found multiple images at a short interval vs recorded video works better and still produces smooth time-lapses. I really enjoyed learning how to use keyframes to add a panning or zooming effect and I mounted the camera to a kitchen timer for a 180/270 degree time-lapse pan.

Storing all my time-lapse videos over the last few months to finally compile them in this one video. They are filmed mostly around Cape Town, but also include a recent holiday on a cruise ship sailing around the Mediterranean Sea aboard Vision on the Seas, as well as two days spent in Venice.

Below are a few examples of the locations you can expect to see in the video:

Table Mountain

Acropolis in Athens

Lanseria Airport

A Busy Intersection in JHB

Leaving Venice on the Cruise Ship

Rialto Bridge - Venice

V&A Waterfront

I hope to improve (perhaps with a proper DSLR camera) and one day get the mandatory shot of clouds filling Cape Town CBD below Table Mountain or wrapping around Lions Head.

Let me know which one was your favorite in the comments below or on YouTube please.

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Aug 10, 2016

Bloemendal Mountain Bike Trail

Bloemendal Mountain Bike (MTB) Trails are a definite favorite within the Tygerberg Mountain Bike Club's network. Bloemendal offers brilliant single trail for all levels of riding and it's central for linking up with Hillcrest, Contermanskloof and Majik Forest. Bloemendal is also home to the club's weekly Thursday night ride. In this video I cover both upper and lower trails of Bloemendal cycling along: Rooikat, Bloemendaaler (Bloemslang), B-Spot and the newly upgraded Lombard's Terra. My ride includes the new Bluegum trail on Upper Bloemendal and the gap jump on Lombard's Terra.

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Jul 16, 2016

Contermanskloof Mountain Bike Trail Session

Contermansklook mountain bike trail has some of the most advanced single trail in the Tygerberg Mountain Bike Club's network. I finally got more GoPro accessories so the camera angles are more varied, plus I have learnt some more editing tricks specifically with keyframes and splitting video segments. I tested out the handlebar or seatpost mount, as well as the chesty and I'm pleased with them both. It was the perfect time to record a video at Contermanskloof as they have recently done some trail maintenance and the greenery at this time of year made for some magnificent scenery.

Jul 5, 2016

Skydiving in Cape Town

It was finally time to tick skydiving off my bucketlist. The trip includes a 20 minute flight to about 10 000ft, 25-30 second free-fall and then about a 5 minute parachute ride back to ground. I got to pilot the parachute once opened and the whole experience was absolutely incredible. Two GoPro cameras are used so you're able to get both video and photos of your dive, thumbs up Skydive Cape Town.

Jun 25, 2016

Table Mountain Cable Car Experience in Cape Town

The Table Mountain cable car is free on your birthday if you're a South African resident. All you need to do is show your ID at the ticket booth and you will be given a return ticket for the cable car. I took the day off work and what better way to spend a mid-week birthday morning than appreciating Cape Town as a tourist. I was very impressed with the hospitality and spirit of the Table Mountain staff.

May 21, 2015

Redbull Kiteboarder Shoots Series in Cape Town

Kiteboarder Ruben Lenten, King of the Air winner has great things to say about Cape Town in a new and personal 10 part series. Proposes up the Garden Route using his drone to film it, as one does.

Watch the series trailer here.

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May 6, 2015

Cape Town Vending Machine With A Strong Message

A vending machine, spitting out coins, would you pick them up? Great way to show that a few coins can keep anyone on the streets. City of Cape Town is calling it The Change Project.

Support shelters. Not begging.

Tulip Hotel Implosion in Cape Town

Oct 18, 2012

Downhill Drifting on Three Wheels in Cape Town

BMX front with a go-kart sort of tail, perfect for carbon free suburban drifting, respect!

via

Jun 30, 2012

Contermanskloof Mountain Bike Trails Shuttle Day

Downhill Shuttle Day at Contermanskloof trails in Cape Town, nice video by retroyspective

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Jun 25, 2012

My Mountain Bike Story [UPDATED]

Since my early school days, I went through skateboarding, rollerblading, bodyboarding and BMX'ing stages, with wakeboarding and skiing, have been down the Orange River four times, completed the Argus three times and was brought up with camping and the outdoors since age 4 (learnt to ride a bicycle on a camping trip). From age 16, I was driving a scooter and age 17 a motorbike. All the extreme stuff excited me. Grade 7, BMX days, we went as far as leaving a pick and shovel on Signal Hill and went everyday after school to build dirt jumps, ended being an epic little figure-of-8 track.

One of my goals for this year was to be more active, i.e. get back into doing an adrenaline seeking sport. June last year, I got back into bodyboarding and am loving it, but the drive to go surf started weakening with winter. At the beginning of the year, while sitting around a fire with some mates, we decided, mountain biking would be it! I got looking for a bike as soon as we were back in town.

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Jun 21, 2012

BOS Ice Tea Vending Machine in Cape Town

The Twitter powered, sampling, vending machine! Bev is parked in Wembley Square until tomorrow Friday, 22 June. "Enjoy your BOS Ice Tea, says Bev (robot voice)".

via DigitalBuzzBlog & BandWidthBlog.

May 24, 2012

Clifton Trawler Time Lapse

Shot over 4 days with a Canon 5DMKII and a 24-70mm f2.8, by Rory

"There were three attempts to pull the Eihatsu Maru out, two of them failing with the rope snapping and the third being a success. The diesel on the Japanese trawler, which was also carrying fish, had to be pumped into a bladder on the beach to decrease its weight, making it easier to pull out..
The diesel was offloaded, a stronger towing point was welded to the rear of the ship and she was pulled out at high tide on Friday the 18th May 2012." Great job on the video, Rory! via

Three articles covering the events from the N.S.R.I: 1, 2, 3

Mar 14, 2012

Little Cape Town

A must watch, absolutely awesome video by Timmy Henny, inspired by Sam O'Hara.

A cool time-lapse of the people & surf on Camps Bay Beach (via MyCityByNight).

I love this city...

Feb 23, 2012

Jeb Corliss' Footage of Table Mountain [official]

Jeb Corliss and his crew capture the full crash! Near death, but doubt two broken legs will stop him.

Safe House - Movie - Cape Town

An action packed movie, shot in the mother city, starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, sounds good! I remember the ciaos when they shot in the Cape Town Stadium till 3, 4am, the surrounding residents were not pleased, but I'm keen to see if that part is in this movie. Coming in 2012!
Shout out to MichClarke.

Sep 27, 2011

Cape Town Bike Festival: What to Expect?

The Cape Town Bike Festival is the first of its kind to ever come to Cape Town and looks like it's not to be missed! The festival runs from the 16-18th of December 2011 at the Cape Town Stadium and will showcase everything from custom motorbikes to massive freestyle action. Seether will be performing on the Friday night and there seems to be a load of other entertainment too, including an expo filled with biker gear.

Get festival tickets here or register online for the full 3 day package.

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