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Trails

Trails 

Peak of perfection

Feb 23, 2021Feb 23, 2021 eyeonlif 0 Comments beauty, Cape Town, hiking, silvermine nature reserve

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

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Almost the Pipe Track

Feb 19, 2021Feb 19, 2021 eyeonlif 2 Comments Cape Town, hiking, Twelve Apostles, windy

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

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Blown away

Feb 16, 2021Feb 16, 2021 eyeonlif 0 Comments Cape Town, Elsie's Peak, fresh air, fynbos, hiking, views

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

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Shipwrecks and shells

Feb 9, 2021Feb 9, 2021 eyeonlif 0 Comments beach, hiking, shells, Shipwreck, south africa

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

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Top of the world!

Feb 3, 2021Feb 3, 2021 eyeonlif 1 Comment Cape Town, dams, hiking, scenery, Table Mountain

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

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The silence of a forest

Jan 31, 2021Jan 31, 2021 eyeonlif 0 Comments newlands forest, quiet, silence, trees

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

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The Amphitheatre

Jan 30, 2021Jan 30, 2021 eyeonlif 2 Comments beauty, Cape Town, mountains, Silvermine

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

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No disas today

Jan 26, 2021Jan 26, 2021 eyeonlif 0 Comments Cape Town, disa, fresh air, hiking, mountain

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

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Too hot for Plum Pudding

Jan 22, 2021Jan 30, 2021 eyeonlif 4 Comments Cape Town, hiking, mountains

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

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An enchanted forest

Jan 19, 2021Jan 21, 2021 eyeonlif 0 Comments adventure, hiking, newlands forest, outdoors

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

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