It is not easy to walk around with Flat Kathy.
For all strangers, or rather, people whom Flat Kathy hasn’t yet demanded I introduce her to, she is simply a sheet of sunshine yellow paper on a stick. With a couple of buttons and some woolly hair sewn on. She is, I freely admit it, “a bit odd”.
With Richard’s sister T, an avid hiker, visiting us last week, we thought we would treat her to a lovely hike in the Jonkershoek Nature Reserve outside Stellenbosch. We ourselves hadn’t done any hiking in a long time, and honestly felt a bit daunted by the prospect of a too-long trudge through the mountains and the veld. We decided to explore the Swartboskloof-Sosyskloof trail at Jonkershoek…
An all-day Family Fun and Sports Festival was held at the Pinelands High School in October 2012, to launch their new Youth Possibility Centre. A Fun Run/Walk had been organised for Saturday morning, with different starting times for the various distances.
On Mother’s Day – I know, it’s several weeks ago! – we decided to take my Mom for a little drive out to the delightful Helderberg Nature Reserve outside Somerset West, to have lunch at the Oak Café, the restaurant/coffee shop inside the reserve. We hadn’t been there in over two years, since exploring the…
At the start of 2011, we had gone for a beachwalk on Dolphin Beach to watch the kitesurfers and windsurfers playing with the wind. This year, at the start of January, we felt like exploring a beach we hadn’t visited before – Milnerton beach. It can be accessed from Woodbridge Island, and lies on the…
As we had had so much fun exploring Cape Town and doing all manner of touristy things with mom-in-law and sis-in-law during their various visits in 2011 (for instance, have a look at this post), we were really excited when mom-in-law announced that she would love to visit us for Christmas and New Year. We…
We celebrated the start of the New Year with a leisurely stroll in the golden light of late afternoon along the Mouille Point/Green Point/Sea Point promenade, near the lighthouse with its distinctive red-and-white stripes. There is an important update on this post!
On Sunday, 20 November 2011, we joined a record number of 2517 people and 1736 dogs who participated in the SPCA Royal Canin Wiggle Waggle Walkathon in Tokai, Cape Town (Record numbers Wiggle Waggle for SPCA). The impressive sum of R250 000 was raised for the Cape of Good Hope SPCA, which is wonderful news,…
A brisk wind was blowing at the False Bay coast this last weekend, as Capetonians were treated to the cheerful sight of colouful kites of all shapes and sizes soaring and swooping, zigging and zagging across the skies over Muizenberg. We had joined our good friends L and V on an outing to the South…
The end of winter and the start of spring marks one of my favourite times of the year: it is flower season in the Western Cape, the Namaqualand and the Northern Cape. Mother Earth responds to good winter rains by carpeting vast areas of the countryside in bright, cheerful colours. Like this:
A couple of weekends ago, we joined our friends L and V and Little N for a hike at Jonkershoek Nature Reserve outside Stellenbosch. Not having been there before, we were curious to see whether our friends’ enthusiastic accounts of the splendours of hiking in those mountains were true. Indeed they were!
A couple o’ weeks ago, at the end of a rather wet winter’s week, we were eager to get out into the world of nature once more. We thus met up with L and V and their little girl N (with whom we had recently picnicked at Green Point Urban Park and walked from Newlands…
The day of the local municipal elections – Wednesday, 18 May 2011 – was declared a public holiday. Having done our civic duty even before breakfast by having our thumbnails marked with ultraviolet ink (to prevent double-voting) and casting our ballots at the local town hall, we took advantage of the fabulous weather to head…
Having walked from Constantia Nek to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens with our friends L and V, who was carrying little N in a soft carry-pouch (see route here), we were keen to try the approach from the opposite direction, Newlands Forest. The two of us had tackled that route about two years ago. At the time,…
“How ’bout we meet at Constantia Nek on the weekend and walk to Kirstenbosch Gardens for lunch?” asked our friend L, one fine week in June. “We did that hike last weekend, and it was quite wonderful.” “An excellent idea. See you there!” When Sunday came around, we duly met V and L at the…
Grains of Sand 
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