The CAPESTORM PUFFER
The CAPESTORM PUFFER |
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The CAPESTORM Peninsula Ultra Fun Run |
Sponsor of the 2001, 2002 and 2003 events.
Your specialist supplier of outdoor apparel.
Contact Details
Lester Rd 35 7800 Wynberg TEL +27 (0)21 761 2021 FAX +27 (0)21 761 2031 E-MAIL storm@gem.co.za
Shops:
Wynberg (Lester Road 35) TEL (021) 761 2021 Century City Shopping Centre TEL (021) 555 0655
Sponsor of the 2002 and 2003 events.
For over 20 years, Hi-Tec has created the most innovative, rugged outdoor footwear available.
Footwear designed for everything from backpacking to adventure racing, trail running, to aquatic adventures. Footwear engineered to offer unsurpassed performance, comfort, and value.
Hunter's Dry has sponsored the PUFFER 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 events. Hunters has become a name synonymous with an adrenaline rush - whether enjoying the first taste of an ice cold Hunters Gold or the new Hunters Dry or participating in a Hunters event like the Hunters Dry PUFFER Peninsula Ultra Fun Run.
Hunters Gold is the original, classic, light and refreshing alcoholic fruit beverage with a young, fun sporty character and personality. It was one of the first ciders on the South African market and is still one of the biggest. The new Hunters Dry offers consumers an extra dry taste and it appeals to a slightly more mature and sophisticated cider drinker. Hunters drinkers aspire the freedom, sense of exhilaration, carefree sexiness and stimulating lifestyle that this brand represents.
The Cape Peninsula National Park (CPNP) was proclaimed on May 29, 1998 and its new corporate identity was launched on June 29, 1999.
Sitting at the south-western tip of Africa, the Cape Peninsula National Park (CPNP) encompasses the incredibly scenic Peninsula mountain chain that stretches from Signal Hill in the north to Cape Point in the south - a distance of some 60km. This narrow finger of land with its many beautiful valleys, bays and beaches is bound by the cold waters of the Atlantic ocean in the west and the warm waters of False Bay in the east. It has within its boundaries two world-renowned landmarks - the majestic Table Mountain and the legendary Cape of Good Hope - both important beacons for the early explorers and from which many myths and legends have sprung.
Recognised globally for its extraordinarily rich, diverse and unique flora and fauna, this singular land formation - with its rugged cliffs, steep slopes and sandy flats - is a truly remarkable natural, scenic, historical, cultural and recreational asset locally, nationally and internationally. Nowhere else in the world does an area of such spectacular beauty and such rich bio-diversity exist almost entirely within a metropolitan area - the thriving and cosmopolitan City of Cape Town.
The Cape Peninsulas dramatic topography and Mediterranean-type climate has produced an enormous array of habitats which in turn means the park offers an incredibly rich variety of plants and animals.
South Africa is the only country in the world to have within its borders an entire floral kingdom (only six such kingdoms exist). The Cape Floral Kingdom - of which the Cape Peninsula National Park forms an extremely significant part - is recognised as the worlds most prominent "hot-spot" of plant diversity. The Peninsula has more than 2,285 species of plants - more than the entire British Isles (1,492 species) and New Zealand (1,996 species). Of these, 90 are considered endemic (i.e. they occur nowhere else in the world).
The predominant vegetation - mountain fynbos (fine bush) - is characterised by three main plant types or growth forms: the Cape reed or restiose grasses; the small-leafed, heath-like ericas and the larger, leathery-leafed proteas. You will also find a large variety of bulbs, rhizomes and tubers that form an important part of the fynbos group as well as many types of ground orchids.
Other types of unusual vegetation found in the park include the rare renosterveld grassland and the evergreen forest found largely in the moist eastern valleys and sheltered ravines of the Peninsula mountain chain. The hardy strandveld (beach vegetation) has evolved to survive in the salty, coastal marine sand. But it is not just the flora for which the park is renowned.
Although most of the indigenous large animals have become locally extinct (the last lion for example was killed in 1802), the park still supports viable populations of many medium sized and smaller animals, such as Bontebok, grysbok, caracal, mongoose, otter and baboon. A large variety of birds also call the park home, some of which have evolved to live exclusively on the flowering fynbos, such as the beautiful Cape Sugarbird. There are at least 111 endemic invertebrates and one endemic vertebrate (Table Mountain Ghost Frog) resident in the park. Many of these endemic invertebrates, such as the extremely rare white peripatus, are found in the deeper recesses of sandstone caves in the park.
This natural treasure trove is threatened by a number of factors, many of these related to its urban and socio-economic context the spread of invasive alien plants, wildfires, encroaching urban development and informal settlements, apathy, increasing number of tourists, increasing conflicting recreational use and illegal exploitation of the area. These threats however are also opportunities and the challenge to the park management is to realise these opportunities.
The CPNP is involved in numerous strategic initiatives to address these, and other, threats and opportunities. These include establishing a partnership with the neighbouring communities; devising and implementing visitor management strategies to deal with the expected increase in the number of recreational users and tourists and; conservation strategies which can enable natural areas to be effectively managed in the urban context. Check out their website at www.cpnp.co.za
FERRYMANS TAVERN
is proud to support the PUFFER 2000
making it a true "Point-to-Pub" run.
Are the proud hosts of the PUFFER.
Nelson Road, Fish Hoek 7975
P O Box 22059 Fish Hoek 7975
Ph: (021) 785 2581 Fax: (021) 785 2565
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1995-2001, Jean-Paul Van Belle
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