Zandvlei Trust

Zandvlei Inventory and Monitoring Programme   (ZIMP)

  Olive House Snake                                              First year  - Western Leopard Toad

Location of Zandvlei

• Zandvlei is situated  between 34 degrees 05' 00' S – 34 degrees 06' 30" S and
  18 degrees 27' 30" E – 18 degrees 29' 00"E.
• It is 25 kms south of Cape Town, on the South Peninsula. The mouth of Zandvlei opens into False Bay, at Muizenberg.
• The Catchment of Zandvlei extends furthest north to the source of the Diep River above the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens about 15kms away and then enters Zandvlei as the Sand River in the north east. Streams from the Penninsula Mountains feed the Keysers and the Westlake Rivers and feed into Zandvlei from the north west. The main waterbody is about 96 hectares. The average total annual rainfall is between 450 - 700mm.
• At mid summer the sun angle is 79 degrees above the north horizon and mid winter it is 33 degrees. 
• Day time air temperatures can range from 40 – 5 C degrees in mid summer to mid winter. Mean seasonal average day temparature is 22 C degrees. Air temparature and wind strength does vary and is influenced by local geographical conditions. Humidity levels are low, due mainly to the prevailling cool winds from the sea, in South East and North West directions.

Latest  –  Leopard Toad info under Amphibians  –  15/08/2008

Read first how you can participate with sightings and photographs to the SARCA and SABCA.

Read first how you can participate with sightings and photographs of Leopard Toads. new 15/08/2008

   Any comments or queries to Gavin Lawson.