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…
During winter in Cape Town, the famous blue skies of Africa are often hidden behind water-logged dark-grey clouds that trail curtains of rain across the peninsula, causing erosion on exposed hillsides and widespread flooding in low-lying areas. In the last three months, our weekends had rarely coincided with a bit of free time and a…
One day in March, we hiked along the Silvermine Crags. A thick blanket of dark grey rain-heavy clouds was hovering above the city, and swirling around the tops of the mountain peaks in the southern peninsula. Luckily, the rain stayed away, and shafts of autumn sunlight eventually broke through the thick clouds and melted them…
At the end of April, after a couple of days of rain, the weather cleared sufficiently to venture outdoors, and we decided to re-try the river ramble in Silvermine West. We had explored this path in March, after long months of no rain, when it had been disappointingly dry and dusty (Silvermine river ramble and…
In September last year, we’d set out to explore the Hillcrest Path at Silvermine West, but we’d been caught out by the rain and the fog, and reluctantly did a u-turn on the mountain. Yesterday, however, was the perfect weather for hiking – relatively cool, a slight breeze, a bit of cloud cover, and just…
The day after I had had my head shaved for a good cause at the 2011 CANSA Shavathon, we decided that the weather was just too nice to stay indoors in front of the computer, catching up on emails and work. Quite Frankly, work would have to Wait. Notice the lower-case ‘work’ – putting it…
My goodness, what a whirlwind of a week this has been! We picked up mom-in-law Lissi (visiting us from Windhoek, Namibia) from Cape Town International Airport last Saturday, and spent a leisurely afternoon at home, giving her some time to relax before launching into a jam-packed program of activities.
At the start of December last year, we felt like exploring Silvermine East a little more. To our delight, the weather was far more inviting than on the previous occasion we had visited the Southern Peninsula (see the story of our exceedingly wet hike to the Amphitheatre in November last year).
Ever since I had joined a group of friends on an extra-long hike from the Silvermine Reservoir, up to the Elephant’s Eye Cave and even further up to the top of the Constantiaberg with its VHF mast in July last year (see description of hike here), hubby and I had wanted to do the hike…
“Do you feel like doing the Amphitheatre hike tomorrow morning?” inquired hubby on Friday night. “Yeah, definitely.” “Great, so how about we get up reallllly early…” “Erm… how early is early?” “How about 5h30?” “What?!” “We’ll have a quick breakfast, and then it’ll take us about 45 minutes to get to the booms at Silvermine,…
On Saturday morning, the 13th of November, the weather was so nice that we decided to head south towards the Silvermine Nature Reserve for a gentle hike around the eastern section. Besides, I needed a break from the computer, where I’d spent the entire week sorting and editing all the photos I took during the…
A couple of weeks ago, having walked around the Silvermine reservoir and along the crags, picnicked in the Elephant’s Eye Cave, and hiked all the way to the top of the Constantiaberg, we thought it was time to investigate the landscape in the eastern section of the Silvermine Nature Reserve (also see here). And as…
A couple of very busy weeks had passed since our last hike, so we were keen to get out into nature this weekend. After a series of blue-sky early-spring days, however, we awoke to some potentially wet and intimidating cloud cover on Sunday morning. Ah well, wrap up warmly and just go anyway, is our…
On Sunday morning, 25 July 2010, I met up with Johan, Isabella and Lourens at the parking area near the large reservoir in the Silvermine Nature Reserve. They were accompanied by Kiki, their friendly Jack Russell terrier. Our destination for the day was the Elephant’s Eye Cave; we wanted to go up, have a picnic…
In the middle of May, the week before Tanya (Richard’s sister from Windhoek) came to visit us in Cape Town, we had walked the reservoir circuit and hiked along the Crags at the Silvermine Nature Reserve (see The Silvermine reservoir circuit and along the Crags). As Tanya hadn’t ever been to this reserve, we were…
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