Trails – Eye on Life

Wed, Feb 24, 2021

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Peak of perfection

Steenberg Peak is one of the trails I have not yet conquered (one of the many) and we set off

There is a mountain bike trail that goes through the private land between Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles where

Although not a very long trail, the path from the upper road in Glencairn up onto Elsie’s Peak can be

Heavy seas were pounding the Peninsula today, churning up the kelp and detritus of the seabed and dumping them along

The wet cliffs, streamsides and seeps of the Cape Peninsula and mountains of the southwestern Cape are home to the

There can be few greater pleasures than the silence of a forest. The silence of footsteps on fallen leaves, the

The mountain slopes that cut the Cape Peninsula in half between Muizenberg and Hout Bay (Silvermine Nature Reserve) must surely

It’s a hiking tradition to go up to the waterfalls on Table Mountain and surrounds at the end of January

The very thought of eating plum pudding on a searing summer’s day at the Cape is not at all enticing.

January’s heat saw us seeking the shady trails of Newlands Forest rather than being out on the peaks of Silvermine,