silvermine nature reserve – Eye on Life

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Eye on Life

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

Back to Elephant’s Eye Cave

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

eyeonlif October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 0 Comments adventure, beauty, Cape Town, fresh air, fynbos, hiking, nature, silvermine nature reserve, sunshine

River trail a popular one

Today we joined the throngs enjoying the Silvermine River Trail – I say that because more people passed us in

eyeonlif July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 1 Comment beauty, birds, Cape Town, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, hiking, nature, silvermine nature reserve

Almost there!

Noordhoek Peak is one of the more strenuous walks in that the climb, whether via the jeep track or mountain

eyeonlif June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 1 Comment beauty, birds, Cape Town, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, hiking, nature, River trail, silvermine nature reserve

Winter solstice walk

Having just had 65mm of rain from a cold front, it was quite a surprise to wake up to a

eyeonlif September 17, 2021September 17, 2021 0 Comments beauty, birds, fresh air, fynbos, healthy, hiking, nature, silvermine nature reserve

Silvermine River trail on a sunny day

Today dawned a typical spring day – fresh southeaster, clouds racing along the mountain tops over Silvermine Nature Reserve and

eyeonlif March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 0 Comments autumn, clouds, fynbos, hiking, silvermine nature reserve

Easy does it

They said it would rain. It’s happened before. Despite heavy cloud cover directly along the ridge of the Table Mountain

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

Peak of perfection

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

eyeonlif October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 2 Comments fynbos, healthy, hiking, outdoors, silvermine nature reserve

Elephant’s Eye, anyone?

As some members of our hiking group return to the hills after lockdown or knee replacements, levels of fitness or

eyeonlif October 9, 2020October 10, 2020 3 Comments clouds, Noordhoek Peak, rain, silvermine nature reserve

Scaling the heights of Noordhoek Peak

Ah, Cape Town, Cape Town – your weather extremes never disappoint! With a forecast of a strong southeasterly wind, some