Hiking

It has been a while since I blogged on my own blog, somehow the Van Stadens one seems to get preference. During our weekend away at Slagboom guest farm in the Zuurberg we were keen to go and check up on “our” Pelargonium ovale which we discovered a few years ago. Unfortunately it grows on […]

02.02.2014 Pelargonium rescued when we dug in the Van Stadens Wild Flower Reserve water pipe. Only had a small piece, no tuber and it has taken 4 years to flower. The leaves are very divided We counted 19 flowers on the umbel 4 long, 3 short anthers The flower stalks develop straight from the tuber.

The campsite The waterfall above the campsite You haven’t been to Ysrivier if you didn’t do the bumslide Good little rapid with standing wave Halfway down you have this amazing Strelizia forest Fair amount of wading Somewhere at this spot Bert Bongers climbed out And then it started to rain… just before the tricky waterfall

17.01.2014 We have 3 plants which we call P.candiscans, they have subtle differences. Unfortunately I missed the flowers of some but just the growth form alone is markedly different. Species 1: Found in Worcester, note that the cultivated plan is much greener than the plant in situ (the one with the flower), 4 petals Species

Saturday, 19 November 2011 Another very enjoyable and educational walk organized by Merike of the Botanical Society. Twelve of us met at the Springs nature reserve near Uitenhage in ideal conditions for walking. We left the general picnic area with its rowdy crowd as soon as possible and headed for the trail through the Valley

Monday, November 14, 2011 We made a list of our collection, we have tried our best to identify them as well as we could now that most are in flower. We were pleasantly surprised that after losing quite a few in 2010 after being away for six months we have built it up quite nicely

Wednesday, 29 June 2011 Another geological trip with Angelique, this time to the Uniondale area for three days to prepare for a poster on her doctorate project. This meant of course stopping at every rock formation with a fault, fold or other (for her) interesting feature. It is always important to have a scale with

All these hassles with the kitchen has played havoc with our training schedule, perhaps just as well because I think we were overdoing it just a little. Friday night I consulted windguru and the wind direction and strength seemed to be ideal to to the Marine Drive circuit clockwise, not our usual direction. And so

Not much to report today really, started off on a good breakfast of fried eggs then got into cycling gear and thanks to the really useful www.windguru.com decided to do the Maitland circuit anticlockwise so we had the breeze in our backs all the way from Maitland to Mount Pleasant. I don’t know if it