by Ralph Pina | Aug 9, 2022 | hiking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
Some recent excursions up the Rooiels valley had shown that an old trail joins up with an old jeep track that ascends out of the Palmiet valley. A relatively easy, though long, walk is thus possible from Rooiels to Oudebosch/Harold Porter Botanical Garden, or vice... 
by Ralph Pina | May 29, 2022 | hiking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
As the name suggests, Klein Hangklip is a smaller replica of Hangklip peak located further south at Cape Hangklip. Hangklip is the sentinel east of False Bay’s entrance. In the age of sail, many a navigator mistook Hangklip for the Cape of Good Hope and ended up... 
by Ralph Pina | May 21, 2022 | Groot Winterhoek Wilderness, hiking
I was privileged to be invited, with five others, by Santie to share her birthday hike in the Groot Winterhoek Wilderness Area – one day for each decade. Although we had wonderful weather – windless and sunny – and simply being out there with... 
by Ralph Pina | Apr 16, 2022 | hiking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
I think we decided on the route for that day at breakfast. The only criterion was that we would walk from my house and not drive anywhere. Santie would be on a mission anyway: to log her 1200th species on iNaturalist. My previous hike up the Rooiels River valley had... 
by Ralph Pina | Mar 12, 2022 | hiking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
This was my first hike from our new home in Rooiels, having moved to this coastal paradise in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve five weeks ago. We quickly came to realise that we have landed in the middle of a contest between the preservationists/conservationists who...
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