The Cape Bird Club

Strandfontein Bird Information Centre

This is a working partnership with the City of Cape Town and the CBC.

Update: December 2008; the beautiful mural is complete.

The south and east facing walls.

Update: November 2008; the Centre is progressing again. Ryana Johnson is painting a mural on the walls. She also painted the mural on the Environmental Centre outside wall.

photograph by Otto Schmidt                                                      photograph by Otto Schmidt

The southern wall                                                 The east and southern walls.

photograph by Otto Schmidt                                      photograph by Otto Schmidt

Ryana concenrating on the detail.              City of Cape Town - Dept of Tourism officials Lizzy Mathopa
                                                              and John Ndlovu, checking the progress.
                                                              This dept financed the project.

Update: September 2008; the Centre has been vandalised!! Stripped bare *#^@! 
So it wont be opening soon.

Progress of the Centre in July 2008. This once disused building has been transformed into a wonderful bird information centre with a viewing platform on top. The Julie te Groen bequest and the City of Cape Town input has made this possible. The official opening will be sometime soon.

Aerial view of the location of the Information Centre, work in progress.

photograph by Eben Olderwagen                                              photograph by Eben Olderwagen

Just after work started.                                          The building part completed. The Centre is still to be
                                                                            finished off and equiped with posters and other info for
                                                                            visitors.

photograph by Eben Olderwagen

The benches at one of the viewing sites.

photograph by Eben Olderwagen

Eben has also been hard at work with the picnic site nearby.

Conservation Manager - Victoria Day  email  strandfontein@gmail.com 

Conservation Office - 021 706 2404