Update from Patricia

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Geology outing with Constantia Waldorf School Grade 6 learners

Date of excursion: 24 June 2025

On the 24th of June, I helped with an excursion to look at the geology of the Cape Peninsula. The children had been given a good foundation in class, and one of the parents put together a short worksheet that was used as guidance. We stopped at Boyes Drive, St. James Beach, Chapman’s Peak Drive, Camps Bay and the Sea Point Contact. We discussed the formation of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks, and I explained some ways of recognising them in the field. We found the signage at Chapman’s Peak Drive and the Sea Point Contact helpful. I also used the geo-site pamphlets that are available on the GSSA website as reference material for the discussion. Thanks to the school for arranging the outing, and to the GSSA for making the reference…

I intend to report on my 9th annual overnight GeoTrip for Friends of Iziko Museum to Robben Island (26-27 July) after the event.  Weather forecast may cause its fourth postponement, however.

In the meantime, all I wish to report is that I recently received a copy of Professor Richard Dingle’s 2024 memoirs The Sea Floor: Exploring its History.  Hard cover, 386 pages and published through Amazon.  Very readable, but very expensive, as one can see by Googling it on Amazon.  Fortunately, he also sent a copy for me to take to UCT Libraries as a donation, which was accepted and fetched from our Newlands home, before we departed for Pinelands on 1st July. 

We visited him and his wife, Lesley in Cambridge (UK) in 2013 and, before Covid, I revisited them in 2019, during Phil's 6-week solo E-W Camino across northern Spain.

All for now