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Dawn Patrol
The last two days I have eschewed my ‘new’ habit of cycling to work in favour of a much earlier start, but a greater reward: powered paraglider “Dawn Patrols”. Keith Pickersgill of Xplorer PPG invited me to join them in flying from Kreeftebaai just south of Melkbosstrand on Monday at 05h15 (just in time to [...]
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Tagged aviation, dawn patrol, paragliding, powered paragliding, PPG, ross hofmeyr
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2011 EMSSA Emergency Medicine in the Developing World Congress
…just finished in Cape Town today. I was fortunate to present on the pre-conference airway course, and then attend the rest for the last 3 day. The full collection of presentations will be made available later on freeemergencytalks.net, but in the meantime, click here to download my rough notes (PDF): EMSSA 2011 – Very Rough [...]
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Keen for an Antarctic traverse?
Word has come to me of a team looking for a doctor for an overland traverse from the coast up to a plateau base this (southern) summer. The deployment would be approximately 3 months, with the latter half spent at a small research station. Previous expedition experience, especially polar and/or high altitude experience, as well [...]
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Some hang-gliding…
It’s been a very busy time over the last few months (as witnessed by the emptiness of my blog archive!), but I have managed to get in a little dying to clear the mind. Counterintuitively, Winter is an awesome time of the year to fly in Cape Town, and having the option of picking either [...]
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Gratuitous flying
Apologies to people reading this who are not paraglider or hang-glider pilots… it may not make much sense (but then again, does your life make sense if you’re not a free-flying pilot? Think about it…) I was blessed with an actual day off today, and even more fortuitously one on which my wife is stuck [...]
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Tagged adam west, cross country, hang-gliding, hangglider, kommetjie, little lion's head, llandudno, niel marx, paraglider, paragliding, ross hofmeyr, signal hill, voidhawk, winter
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Sutherland Paragliding 2010
The paragliding club has just announced the traditional winter flyaway to Sutherland for the last weekend in May – I’m now furiously hoping my new roster will allow me to attend. Last year we resurrected the tradition, traveling to SA’s highest and coldest town for the weekend and flying from the spectacular but remote Ouberg [...]
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Tagged aviation, bmw dakar, flyaway, motorcycling, overberg paragliding club, paragliding, sutherland
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More fynbos…
…and bright red, too. My rough-and-tough wilderness medic blog is turning into a flower show. Granny would be so proud. (Enjoy).
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Little treasures
Searching for a geocache we didn’t ever found, we came across this: It’s a fynbos flower, Gladiolus carmineus. Beautiful. Unexpected little treasures are perhaps the best.
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Photography page, Antarctica images and a new development
I’ve been meaning for a very long time to upload some decent galleries of my photographs to this blog, for the reader’s general enjoyment. You’ll have noted the occasional random image post in the past. To this end, I’ve begun experimenting with a gallery plugin, accessed via the “Photography” page (above, or click the link). [...]
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GFJH Emergency Unit features on FastLane blog…
Great to see our little hospital featured on this popular EM blog – well done, guys. http://lifeinthefastlane.com/2011/03/gf-jooste-hospital-experience/ It’s worth a read even if just for the background about how and where we work
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