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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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Sea kayaking from Hangklip to Gordons Bay

by Ralph Pina | Nov 14, 2004 | kayaking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve

A 40km paddle along some of the most beautiful coastline in the Cape - Cape Hangklip to Gordons Bay. ("Hangklip" = "Hanging Rock") [HTML1] Or download the GPS track and open in Google Earth

Namibian landscapes

by Ralph Pina | Jul 31, 2004 | Ai-Ais/Richtersveld, Epupa Falls, Etosha, Namib-Naukluft, Namibia, safari travel

Family, overland safari; 6000+km; 2 - 20 July 2004 Namibia is one of the easiest and safest African countries to tour by road, given its excellent dirt road network. Here's a photo essay of such a road trip...[gallery link="file"...

Kayaking at Kraalbaai and Langebaan

by Ralph Pina | Apr 8, 2004 | kayaking, West Coast National Park

Well, it's not quite hardcore kayaking. Sometime in 2002 I had tired of waiting for wind that sometimes never comes during twenty-nine or more years of windsurfing. Now there was an alternative. Kraalbaai is also one of my favourite places. It is located in the West...

Visgat Kloof

by Ralph Pina | Feb 24, 2004 | Groot Winterhoek Wilderness, kloofing

21-22 February 2004Visgat. Ever since someone had told about this secret place I had wanted to go there. Finally my chance came - a "probationary" trip with the Stellenbosch branch of the Mountain Club of SA ("probationary" because I have to complete 3 trips before my...