I had no intention of an early start – just as well as the mist and clouds were low. I was unsure what to do, having accomplished all I intended here yesterday, apart for the planned drive and ambitious walk/climb to the Sentinel peak. We decided not to it after the ‘easy’ walk yesterday! A […]
I survived. And the photo yesterday is great – I think so anyway. I was up at 5.30 and into the park as the gate opens at 5. I was keen to get 4 particular shots someone had put on the web. As he wrote, the first lookout (Thendele Lookout) just above the Visitor Centre […]
Lemon Tree is a very upmarket B&B, well appointed rooms, antique furniture, a large dining room leading onto a veranda, pool and colourful garden on one side. The rooms are accessed by a similar but narrow path from the gate down the other side, leading into a small courtyard filled with pot plants, a central […]
The Tsitsikamma Park is my favourite place in the world, though Lord Howe Island is a close second. It is ‘just’ a beach to some but for me it has magic. The cabins and Park office huddled against the fynbos covered cliff, the sound of skiet rok (shooting rock) where the ocean continues to crash […]
It rained heavily; the forecast was for more but clear tomorrow. I would walk in the rain but Ailine and David were not keen, instead opting to drive to Grahamstown to free up tomorrow. I agreed as it was only 170km according to David. Once on the road I saw that was to PE with […]
The weather has changed, become cloudy, and tomorrow will be rainy, so we agreed to spend today ‘on the top’ and tomorrow’ down the bottom ie in the Park. The top involves some dodgy driving, planned months back. My intention was to at least photograph the Bloukraans River mouth. This place is where a significant […]
Breakfast was a typical huge farm style meal. Not the best B&B though, breakfast is extra! Heading east over this undulating plain with the mountain range to the north, the road soon led down to the relatively flat plain of olive green fynbos to Oudshoorn. At a glance there is nothing to recommend the fynbos, […]
The lifts were still not working. I made two trips with my bags and the lifts then worked. David took his in the lift to L3 where the owner met us and then the spare flat key was missing. I made the trip up, then he found it in his bag. Not a good start […]
One can easily spend a week around Cape Town visiting the beautiful neat wineries, white gabled homes set against the high mountains, the cableway up the mountain, Rondebosch Botanic Gardens, many places in the city, walking trails up some mountains…. I wanted to drive the circuit around the peninsula ranges, which are effectively an […]
Because of its natural beauty, Cape Town can never be a disappointment; majestic, impossibly flat, Table Mountain, blue ocean, tucked away cove villages on the slopes, gracious white gabled homes hidden behind ancient oaks and trimmed gardens, or surrounded by neat lines of vineyards. Groot Constantia, Groot Schure, Hout Bay, Fishoek, Tokai – strange names. […]