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 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...
Rooiels River walk

Rooiels River walk

by | 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...
The Kogelberg Trail

The Kogelberg Trail

by | Jun 11, 2021 | hiking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve

The Kogelberg Trail is a circular, 24 km hiking trail in the Kogelberg Nature Reserve. Last weekend’s walk was fifth time that I have done it, as I remember. All the gradients are gradual, there is no exposure nor scrambles and the trail has few obstacles. It is...