Flower trail

An hour outside Cape T0wn along the West Coast Road (R27), is the West Coast National Park. Yesterday we hiked the Steenbok Trail to catch the first flowers of the season. The Postberg section is only open in the "flower season" which is from now until the end of September. This is a most beautiful place and well worth a visit even if you are not intending to hike or look at the world famous spring flower displays. There are lovely drives, picnic spots, game, bird hides on the Ramsar site wetlands surrounding Langebaan lagoon and a really good restaurant and coffee shop.

Up the West Coast

Yesterday was the last official day of the school holidays (not counting weekends). I accompanied my sister, a few of her children, a young visitor from Holland and two extra little nephews to the West Coast National Park, about an hour and a half out of Cape Town. This is the old homestead of Geelbek, absolutely riddled with history, where we had a late afternoon "lunch". You can see children playing on the wall of the old Cape Dutch farmstead.
(Birders - this is a wonderful place to see waders, but don't bring unruly nephews with you!)