Moments from South Africa...

                           

For the next 3 weeks I am visiting the marine invertebrate collections at the Iziko Museum in Cape Town, South Africa!   

Here is one of my earlier posts showing South African asteroids! 

Things are keeping me busy.. so here are some moments that give you some ideas of life on the road!

Spines and arm from the South African goniasterid, Calliaster acanthodes...

The mountains surrounding Cape Town as the fog clears...

The original catalog of the South African Museum invertebrate specimens! (mostly now databased)

This nudibranch, described by Dr. Terry Gosliner, named for Nelson Mandela...

This lovely walk through the Company Gardens outside the Iziko Museum...

Similar to the New Zealanders and the Australians, it seems that Cape Town also loves its fresh, hot meat pies!

More to come!