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Thank you for visiting my outdoor blog. RalphPina.com documents my experiences over many years of appreciating, and adventuring in, Nature. It celebrates visual beauty, advocates minimal impact, reflects on humans’ relationship with our ecosphere, spans the planet but focuses on the wild diversity of southern Africa. Photos, videos and GPS maps of hiking, cycling, kayaking, abseiling, canoeing and windsurfing..

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Grootkop

by Ralph Pina | Oct 6, 2025 | Featured Posts, Table Mountain National Park

We ascended Diagonal, followed the Twelve Apostles Spine Track south-west, taking in Tranquillity Cracks, summited Grootkop (857 m ASL) as the wind cloud momentarily cleared. We were then blown down Oudekraal Ravine and returned along the Pipe Track. The full circuit...

Aasvoëlkrans Hiking Trail

by Ralph Pina | Jun 28, 2025 | Featured Posts, Montagu Mountain Reserve, scenic walks, trails

This trail is a short and sharp hike in the Montagu Mountain Reserve, some 2.4 km in length and 214 m in elevation gain. For relatively little effort it reveals panoramic vistas of the town of Montagu, Cogmanskloof and Bloupunt. From its highest point, the old English...

Perdeberg hike

by Ralph Pina | May 1, 2025 | Featured Posts, hiking, Kleinmond Nature Reserve, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve

The hike from Feetjiesbos (or Fairy Glen), near the Palmiet bridge, to Perdeberg Peak and back, in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, is not hard. It rises through rich fynbos at an easy gradient, gradually revealing views of the sweep of Sandown Bay beach to the Bot...

Kasteelkop & Nek

by Ralph Pina | Apr 20, 2025 | Featured Posts, hiking, Kleinmond Nature Reserve, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, scenic walks

Kasteelskop is a rocky hill above Fairy Glen and below the Three Sisters that resembles a castle turret. It also features a castellated ridge from a certain angle. Our pleasant hike took in the kop and the nek (saddle) that separates it from the higher Three Sisters...