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Search complete. 8 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Cape Peninsula".
Sep 17, 2026
VictoriaGUEST
I have not gotten my badge yet.
VictoriaGUEST
So I got my own little tour with like five tour guy and we did Cape Peninsula and it was, it was great.
VictoriaGUEST
No, I mean, we all, they all had a chance to speak and kind of gain the experience.
VictoriaGUEST
And it was really awesome sitting in the car.
Bronwyn HodgeGUEST
So you get this really mixed experience and you can kind of play around with your budget accordingly.
Bronwyn HodgeGUEST
Like if you're in Cape Town and you're doing, you're out every day, out in the V&A waterfront, out for dinner, out doing Table Mountain, out at the Cape Peninsula, Maybe you're gonna save some money by doing more of a moderate hotel there.
Bronwyn HodgeGUEST
You know, you're out and busy.
Bronwyn HodgeGUEST
And then maybe you splurge for your safari experience.
Luke KempGUEST
Yeah, absolutely.
Luke KempGUEST
So there's probably close to some 30 species acro- across the Cape Peninsula, and three of them are, are highly venomous, like you've mentioned, the cape cobra, the puff adder, the boomslang.
Luke KempGUEST
But, um, probably more than 20 of those are, are basically, they're harmless.
Luke KempGUEST
They have no venom.
Simone SneddorfHOST
He's the owner of a company called Cape Sidecar Adventures, founded in 2004, where they operate chauffeured tours with a fleet of 50 vintage motorbike sidecars around Cape Town.
Simone SneddorfHOST
the Cape Peninsula and the Cape Winelands.
Simone SneddorfHOST
The company also runs a micro distillery, Sidecar Spirits, located at the Sidecar Depot in Woodstock, Cape Town.
Simone SneddorfHOST
So let's give a warm welcome today.
Helen LockhartGUEST
So, so we have Western leopard toads which are endemic to our region.
Helen LockhartGUEST
That means they, they live nowhere else in the world, and they are at various places around the Cape Peninsula.
Helen LockhartGUEST
Um, but this time of the year, sort of between July and October, um, is really their breeding season.
Helen LockhartGUEST
So what happens is, is toads, um, which most people don't realize, toads don't, these toads don't live in water all year round.
Helen LockhartGUEST
Um, they are found on the Overstrand as well, but-
Pippa HudsonHOST
Okay
Helen LockhartGUEST
... um, certainly in, in, in around the Cape Peninsula, it's places like, um, so Sikefla, which I've mentioned.
Helen LockhartGUEST
Noordhoek have, um, big, uh, migration crossings.
AlexGUEST
It's one of the biggest timed races in the world.
AlexGUEST
So 110 kilometers around the whole Cape Peninsula.
AlexGUEST
It's a very beautiful race.
AlexGUEST
Do you get to actually see that stuff? Yeah, you do.