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Trails

Trails 

A forest amble

Jan 27, 2023Jan 27, 2023 eyeonlif 2 Comments adventure, beauty, Cape Town, chameleon, dogs, forest, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, hiking, horses, nature, Tokai

Our walks of late have been tinged with sadness, as we tick off each one as being the last time

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Buffels Bay to Rooikrans

Jan 20, 2023Jan 20, 2023 eyeonlif 1 Comment adventure, animals, baboons, beauty, birds, Cape Point, Cape Town, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, hiking, nature

Any visitor to Cape Point Nature Reserve will soon realise that they are not in one of our country’s game

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A hot, hot day

Jan 17, 2023Jan 17, 2023 eyeonlif 0 Comments beauty, Cape Point, Cape Town, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, hiking, nature, Paulsberg, Venus Pools

The real heat of summer is now starting to be felt, and each hike is approached with due cognisance of

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Up Elsie’s Peak

Jan 14, 2023Jan 14, 2023 eyeonlif 1 Comment adventure, beauty, birds, Cape Town, Elsie's Peak, Fish Hoek, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, hiking, nature, sea

One of the most scenic of the medium-level hikes on the Peninsula is the meander up Elsie’s Peak from the

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Misty morning

Jan 10, 2023 eyeonlif 0 Comments apartments, Cape Town, elite, exercise, fog, fresh air, hiking, homeless, promenade, Sea Point

Another gentle walk as we ease into a new year – the promenade at Sea Point, from Mouille Point to

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Easy start to 2023

Jan 3, 2023Jan 3, 2023 eyeonlif 0 Comments adventure, beauty, Cape Town, Constantia, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, heat, hiking, hills, nature, Peddlars, Spaanschemat, summer

Our first hike of 2023 was of necessity an easy one. Festive season indulgence required some sort of exercise to

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Down the Silvermine valley

Dec 31, 2022Dec 31, 2022 eyeonlif 1 Comment adventure, beauty, birds, Cape Town, companionship, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, hiking, nature, Silvermine, Sunbird

Our hiking group’s last walk for 2022 was the easy trail from the Silvermine non-pay parking area along the jeep

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Back to Elephant’s Eye Cave

Dec 16, 2022Dec 16, 2022 eyeonlif 1 Comment adventure, beauty, birds, Cape Town, Elephant's Eye cave, fresh air, healthy, hiking, nature, silvermine nature reserve, Tokai

Despite cloud cover, or maybe because of it in this fierce heat, we took ourselves off to the Elephant’s Eye

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Penguins and people

Dec 10, 2022Dec 10, 2022 eyeonlif 1 Comment beach days, beauty, Boulders Beach, Cape Town, fresh air, healthy, hiking, nature, penguins, snorkelling, tourists, underwater

Our end-of-year lunch is always combined with a short stroll along the boardwalk from Seaforth to Windmill Beach, via the

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A leafy trail for all

Dec 8, 2022Dec 8, 2022 eyeonlif 0 Comments Alphen, beauty, bicycles, birds, Constantia, Diep River, dogs, greenbelts, hikers, horses, safe, shady, trees

Yesterday was one of the trails that our Intrepid Leader calls ‘a flat walk’, and shows an elevation of 50m

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