Fred Metcalf Freelance Tourist Guide

Fred Metcalf Freelance Tourist Guide Registered Cultural Site Tourist Guide for Western Cape, South Africa. I also do house sitting.

I am retired from corporate Information Technology and qualified as a Cultural Site Tourist Guide for the Western Cape.

17/06/2025

Fascinating sightseeing trip of the docks is packed with historical information and views of awe-inspiring ships

23/08/2024

Enter & stand a chance to win an Original MdK Customs Handmade Pikstel Set

What great views yesterday with the fog that kept on rolling in from the cold Atlantic ocean. Grateful for the cooling b...
21/01/2024

What great views yesterday with the fog that kept on rolling in from the cold Atlantic ocean. Grateful for the cooling breeze at this altitude (360m above sea level, I bet you didn't know that about this place!). The view is not 360°, for that you have to drive to the top of the Kanonberg hill...

19/09/2023

~~ In 1971, a cement truck crashed near Winganon, Oklahoma. The mixer was too heavy to move so they left it. The locals have since repainted it to look like a NASA space capsule.

Pet sitting activities on a farm...
26/06/2023

Pet sitting activities on a farm...

Great hike on Table Mountain Western and Central Tables, started above the clouds!
08/05/2023

Great hike on Table Mountain Western and Central Tables, started above the clouds!

08/05/2023

A fresh take on Kirsten Neuschafer lead in the Golden Globe Race race by Stephen Venables from Financial Times: "I don’t get lonely when I’m doing something I really want to do,” she told me over the sat phone....What about sleep deprivation, I asked? “Oh, I have had some long sleeps — up to six hours. But in busy shipping lanes or anywhere near land, I have to sit up awake, just closing my eyes for maybe 20 minutes at a time.... What she really wanted to talk about though, were the good times, like the thrill of sighting a land feature on Tasmania after weeks of celestial navigation in the Indian Ocean, “realising I was right there, exactly where I thought I was.”

Read the full article here:
https://www.ft.com/content/4d3e7320-e5f1-4f02-b0a0-ed963322a3fb

Address

Morgenrood Road
Cape Town
7708

Opening Hours

Monday 08:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 08:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 08:00 - 18:00
Thursday 08:00 - 18:00
Friday 08:00 - 18:00
Saturday 08:00 - 18:00
Sunday 08:00 - 18:00

Telephone

+27828225605

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