Betty’s Bay to Rooiels

Betty’s Bay to Rooiels

by | 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...
Klein Hangklip

Klein Hangklip

by | 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...
To the Rooiels source

To the Rooiels source

by | Apr 16, 2022 | hiking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve

I think we decided on the route for that day at breakfast. The only criterium 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...