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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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Betty’s Bay to Rooiels

by Ralph Pina | Aug 9, 2022 | Featured Posts, 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

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 being...

Five days in Groot Winterhoek

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 like-minded people was...

To the Rooiels source

by Ralph Pina | 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...